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Free data visualization course

Data Visualization and Dashboard Storytelling

Module 02

Data Questions, Audience, and Decision Context

By the end of this module you can trace a chart back to the decision it supports, and stop making charts for an audience that was never going to act on them.

Units

  1. Unit 02.00: Starting from the decision, not the data
  2. Unit 02.01: Who is reading it and what they already know
  3. Unit 02.02: Aggregation that hides the thing you needed
  4. Unit 02.03: The comparison the question implies
  5. Unit 02.04: Writing the chart brief before opening a tool

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