matthewklim/plot-a-thon-data-visualization-festival-2022

Plot-a-Thon Data Visualization Festival 2022

Data, analytics, and visualizations. These three elements are at the core of storytelling.

Data

How many of you use data in your day to day lives? If I had to guess using data...

it would be 99.99% of everyone on this call

Why do we use data?

Calculated Choices

Decision making situations like:

• time allocation
• budgeting
• grocery shopping
• commuting and traveling

Analytics

We have goals and objectives for different situations and we want to make informed and optimal choices at scale.

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First try!

Trial and Error

Ever tried.
Ever failed.
No matter.
Try again.
Fail again.
Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett

A Picture is Worth Thousand Words

And often several hundred too many!

Volume of Information

Sometimes it depends on the audience. Sometimes it's the visual.

Vague

Detailed

Overwhelming

Loaded

Storytelling

Stories need narrative, background, and a connection to an audience for the message to be relatable. Clear and understandable in a short span.

Chapters

Show different parts of your stories separately is effective. Events happen separately!

Dashboards, separators, text boxes can all help differentiate different sections of information.