The following infographic, created by Zhenia Vasiliev, breaks down the basics of data visualization. It shows how beginners can merge form and function, and design meaningful infographics.
Key highlights:
- Analyse your data: Analysis is the key. Before we can visualize the data we need to understand it.
- Come up with a story: Story is finding a single strand of meaning in an endless sea of information. It has a beginning, middle and end.
- Make it visible: Visualization is a creative act of making. Making the data visually elegant evident and engaging.
- Entertain to educate: Good data design need to illuminate and inform the viewer, elucidate and illustrate the facts and stats....
Useful tips on how to turn data into compelling content.