![]() ![]() Seeing your chart will be helpful to us all, no matter what it looks like. You can also send me your chart to I’ll upload it for you.Īgain, your redesign is not so much about improvement (although feel free to try!). to Imgur, Twitter or Dropbox, and link to it in the notepad. Once you’ve designed your chart, upload it, e.g. ![]() Use any tool or medium you’d like (I’m secretly hoping for some pen & paper versions). Get an Adobe Illustrator / PDF / SVG file from this Dropbox folder, copy & paste the data from the following table into your favorite charting tool, or click on “Get the data” below the table to download an CSV: You’ll probably want to redesign the chart after reading “Storytelling with Data”, to directly apply the lessons learned. This time, we’ll try something new: We’ll get our hands on the scatter plot in figure 5.6 on page 136 and will redesign it! Even if you feel like your redesign won’t improve Cole’s version, it’s helpful and fun to change chart elements and see how it changes the readability of the chart. ![]() If you can’t find the time to prepare anything at all just come by and chat – we’ll quickly get into discussion mode. Three questions,…ĭuring the conversation, I’ll ask these three questions in order:ġ What was your general impression of the book?Ģ What was most insightful & surprising about the book? Explain how a sentence, chapter or the whole idea of the book challenged something you assumed.ģ Having read the book, what will you do differently the next time you create a chart?įor each question, you can prepare an answer in 1-2 sentences and paste it into the notes once I ask the question during the conversation. The discussion will be structured with the help of three questions, a redesign challenge and a Q&A with Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic. 5 pm UTC is 10 am on the US west coast, lunchtime (1 pm) on the US east coast, 6 pm for readers in the UK & Portugal, 7 pm for most other Europeans and 10.30 pm in India. It won’t be a call or a video chat we’ll just write down our thoughts. We get together to talk about the book. This will happen digitally on Tuesday, the 30th of October at 5 pm UTC over at /p/bookclub-swd. We all read the book. That’s where the fun begins! Please mention use the hashtag #datavisclub if you want to share your process, insights, and surprises – I’ll make sure to tweet them out as as motivation for us all.ģ. You get Cole’s book. Ask your local library to order it for you, buy it (used for example), borrow it from a friend, ask around on your preferred social network.Ģ. Still not sure? Read the reviews on “Storytelling with Data” on. Instead, check out the other book we’re reading right now, Tamara Munzner’s “Visualization Analysis & Design” – we’ll have a discussion about it on October 16 at 5 pm UTC. If you’re using data vis to find unknown insights in your data, this is not the book for you. It teaches you how to communicate your data once you know what you want to communicate. put yourself more in the shoes of the readers of your chart.ĭon’t read Cole’s book if you want to learn data analysis, coding or how to actually build these charts with Excel or a charting tool like Datawrapper.Īlso, consider that this book has a clear focus on the presentation side.You’ll learn about the importance of text in chart design, and how to focus the attention of your readers. You’ll learn about Gestalt theory, chart types, and how to de-clutter your charts. She writes a blog, organizes a chart design challenge and records a podcast (definite recommendation!), all under the label “Storytelling with Data”. In 2015, she wrote “Storytelling with Data”. She has a background in applied math and worked for Google as a People Analytics Manager for almost six years. Should you read the book?Ĭole Nussbaumer Knaflic “helps rid the world of ineffective graphs”, as her Twitter bio states. We will discuss these redesigns and answer three questions during the meetup itself – scroll down to learn more! Afterward, Cole will join us to answer our questions. We will discuss it on Tuesday, the 30th of October at 5 pm UTC here: /p/bookclub-swd (“swd” stands for “Storytelling with Data”).īefore the book club, we have a redesign challenge. I’m happy to announce the 4th book we will read**“Storytelling with Data” by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic**. You can find their answers in the linked notepads too. Tamara Munzner’s “Visualization Analysis & Design”, chapter 1-6īoth Tamara and Alberto joined our conversations to answer questions we had about the book (thank you so much!).Edward Tufte’s “The Visual Display of Quantitative Information”.Our Data Vis Book Club has grown quite a bit since we started it: You can join more than 1,500 people in following us on Twitter ( or have a look at the discussion of the three books we’ve read so far: ![]()
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