Data Visualization for Professionals. Designing Clear Charts and Dashboards

Even the most ordinary charts, dashboards, and infographics can tell fascinating and inspiring stories about data! This book discusses how to improve the visualizations you create every day by enhancing layout and typography, selecting the right color combinations, and ensuring accessibility for people with disabilities. You will discover timeless design principles that will help you highlight important features, compensate for information deficits, and organize interactive engagement with streams of constantly updated data.
The book «Data Visualization for Professionals» will introduce you to the basics of graphic design as applied to the most common types of data visualization. You will learn how to choose the right color combinations for charts, encourage users to start interacting with and exploring data, and create visualizations that are accessible to everyone, including people with disabilities. Along the way, you will practice each new skill, developing a dashboard project from initial research to publication.