Data Visualization: Best Practices for Creating Visuals

Most organizations depend on data visualization to help drive business decisions. Using the correct charts and graphs helps communicate the right information and identify patterns and trends within your data. Youll begin this course by identifying the importance of data visualization and its application in curating data that is easy to digest, understand, and interpret.Next, youll discover best practices for visualizing data and the significance of creating user-centered visuals. Youll then explore different presentation types such as comparison, composition, distribution, trends, and relationship, and learn how to map your charts to these categories. Finally, youll investigate the use cases for popular charts such as line charts, pie charts, histograms, scatter plots, and others. Youll also recognize when to use specialized charts such as Gantt charts, sunburst charts, and Sankey diagrams.