The Present Beyond Measure Show: Data Storytelling, Presentation & Visualization
Lea Pica | Data Storytelling Advocate, Speaker + Educator
85 episodes
9 months ago
Your one-stop-shop for essential data storytelling, data visualization, and presentation skills for data analysts, digital marketers, data science, and data practitioners. With regular original content and luminary guest appearances from Nancy Duarte, Rand Fishkin, Alberto Cairo, Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic, Jim Sterne, Dustin Mathews, Garr Reynolds, and more. This is the toolset you need to present your insights, inform business decisions, inspire action, and become INDISPENSABLE.
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Your one-stop-shop for essential data storytelling, data visualization, and presentation skills for data analysts, digital marketers, data science, and data practitioners. With regular original content and luminary guest appearances from Nancy Duarte, Rand Fishkin, Alberto Cairo, Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic, Jim Sterne, Dustin Mathews, Garr Reynolds, and more. This is the toolset you need to present your insights, inform business decisions, inspire action, and become INDISPENSABLE.
Advanced Data Visualizations, Charts, and Graphs with Jon Schwabish
The Present Beyond Measure Show: Data Storytelling, Presentation & Visualization
54 minutes
2 years ago
Advanced Data Visualizations, Charts, and Graphs with Jon Schwabish
Ever wonder what chart horizons lie beyond the basic bar, pie, or line graph? Jon Schwabish returns to the show to give us a tour of advanced chart options that can work well for business data storytelling and a few exotic graphs that are simply a fascinating and novel way to view data!
Jon is an economist at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC. In addition to his research on programs that support low-income communities, he is a writer, teacher, and creator of policy-relevant data visualizations. He is considered a leading voice for clarity and accessibility and how researchers communicate their analyses.
Jon is also the author of Better Presentations, Elevate the Debate, and Data Visualizations in Excel, and today's episode samples charts from his most excellent read, Better Data Visualizations.
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In This Episode, You’ll Learn…
The pros and cons of Excel, Tableau, Datawrapper, Flourish, Power BI, and R for data visualizations.
Why a bee swarm chart is one of Jon’s favorites.
The advantages of a waffle chart over a pie chart.
The importance of asking for feedback on a graph or chart you have created.
People, Blogs, and Resources Mentioned
Bee swarm chart
Waffle chart
Voronoi diagram
Dumbbell dot plot
Choropleth map vs. hexagon and tile map
Slope graph
Better Presentations
Elevate the Debate
Better Data Visualizations
Data Visualization in Excel
Tableau
Datawrapper
Flourish
Power BI
R
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The Present Beyond Measure Show: Data Storytelling, Presentation & Visualization
Your one-stop-shop for essential data storytelling, data visualization, and presentation skills for data analysts, digital marketers, data science, and data practitioners. With regular original content and luminary guest appearances from Nancy Duarte, Rand Fishkin, Alberto Cairo, Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic, Jim Sterne, Dustin Mathews, Garr Reynolds, and more. This is the toolset you need to present your insights, inform business decisions, inspire action, and become INDISPENSABLE.
