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Data Visualization: a successful design process

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Data Visualization: a successful design process

Overview of this book

Do you want to create more attractive charts? Or do you have huge data sets and need to unearth the key insights in a visual manner? Data visualization is the representation and presentation of data, using proven design techniques to bring alive the patterns, stories and key insights locked away."Data Visualization: a Successful Design Process" explores the unique fusion of art and science that is data visualization; a discipline for which instinct alone is insufficient for you to succeed in enabling audiences to discover key trends, insights and discoveries from your data. This book will equip you with the key techniques required to overcome contemporary data visualization challenges. You'll discover a proven design methodology that helps you develop invaluable knowledge and practical capabilities.You'll never again settle for a default Excel chart or resort to "fancy-looking" graphs. You will be able to work from the starting point of acquiring, preparing and familiarizing with your data, right through to concept design. Choose your "killer" visual representation to engage and inform your audience."Data Visualization: a Successful Design Process" will inspire you to relish any visualization project with greater confidence and bullish know-how; turning challenges into exciting design opportunities.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Data Visualization: a successful design process
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Arrangement


You have established how you are going to represent your data, you've identified your visual identity through color, the choices around static or interactive design have been rationalized, and you have identified the range of annotation requirements.

For our final layer, we need to consider how to arrange our design in terms of the layout, placement, and organization of all visible elements. How can we piece everything together most effectively?

As we've just discussed in relation to annotation, our intention with the arrangement and architecture of our design is to deliver as intuitive an experience as possible. The level of intuitiveness and smooth access into the subject matter is strongly influenced by the logic and implied meaning behind the arrangement of our chart elements, the interactive features, and annotation devices.

The key overall aim is to reduce the amount of work the eye has to undertake to navigate around the design and to decipher the sequence and hierarchy...