Programs

How You Will Benefit

• Understand basic graphic design principles and how audiences process information visually
• Learn how to make use of emphasis, color, layout, and typography to maximize the clarity of your messages
• Become familiar with available tools/techniques for data visualization
• Understand the differences between “Glanceable” and “Referenceable” visualizations and how to harness the power of each
• Increase the impact and strength of your messages by choosing the most effective chart for a given data set and story in various circumstances
• Learn the one color that you should make use of in every visualization, the one default element that should be removed from every chart, how legends can confuse your audience, why a bar is nearly always better than a pie, and common design mistakes that distort your data and damage your credibility

What You Will Cover

• The history and current landscape of information and data design
• Basic principles of graphic, information, and layout design
• “Chart Junk” and how to remove it to improve clarity
• Basic charts such as pies, columns, bars, lines, and variations of these
• Advanced charts such as scatters, bubbles, histograms, bullet graphs, combos, and Paretos
• Specialty charts including units, tree maps, and proportional shapes
• How to make use of trend lines, reference bands, annotations, and direct labeling
• When to use Excel® and PowerPoint® to create tables, how to properly design them, and how to apply conditional formatting to create heat maps and table lenses
• Tricks, tips, and techniques for overcoming Excel and PowerPoint limitations and creating proper workflows

Who Should Attend

Those with a foundational understanding of Microsoft Excel® and PowerPoint®, who work regularly with data and wish to design basic and more advanced charts, graphs, and tables