This document provides tips and advice for creating effective data visualizations. It discusses the importance of properly scaling circles, choosing appropriate chart types based on the data, using color carefully, thoroughly labeling charts, considering grids and textures, measuring and presenting the right data, focusing on relationships, accurately representing the data visually, being persistent, and taking bold risks. Effective visualization requires understanding these design principles and techniques.

1. MORITZ STEFANER
TRUTH&BEAUTY OPERATOR
A FEW THINGS THAT WOULD
HAVE BEEN HELPFUL TO
KNOW BEFOREHAND
Visualizing Marathon Berlin // Dec 2011

3. http://society6.com/albyantoniazzi/MOST-POPULAR-INFOGRAPHICS-You-can-find-around-the-Web_Print

4. http://society6.com/albyantoniazzi/MOST-POPULAR-INFOGRAPHICS-You-can-find-around-the-Web_Print

5. DATA
DECORATION

6. relevance integrity
Information
Design
form function
Based on a graphic by David McCandless

7. VISUALIZATION
CREATES
WELTBILDER

9. LEARN THE
BASICS

10. SCALE YOUR
CIRCLES
PROPERLY
GODDAMIT!

11. based on http://www.colorful-data.net/correct-scaling/
25?
radius ⨉ √25
=
5

12. based on http://www.colorful-data.net/correct-scaling/
radius ⨉ √25
=
5

14. by Gregor Aisch

15. LOCATION IS
EVERYTHING

16. Variable Width Table or Table with Bar Chart Column Chart Circular Area Chart Line Chart Column Chart Line Chart
Column Chart Embedded Charts
Column Histogram
Scatter Chart
Line Histogram
Bubble Chart
Scatter Chart
3D Area Chart
Stacked 100% Stacked Stacked 100% Stacked Area Chart Pie Chart Waterfall Chart Stacked 100% Column Chart
Column Chart Column Chart Area Chart with Subcomponents

17. GET IT RIGHT
IN BLACK AND
WHITE

18. COLOR IS
DIFFICULT

19. http://www.perceptualedge.com/

20. http://www.perceptualedge.com/

22. http://well-formed-data.net/archives/669/on-the-role-of-bacon-in-

23. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=graphic-science-science-lovers-web-traffic

24. http://well-formed-data.net/archives/669/on-the-role-of-bacon-in-visualization

25. STACKED
AREA CHARTS
HAVE ISSUES,
TOO

26. http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2011/11/i-hate-stacked-area-charts/

27. http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2011/11/i-hate-stacked-area-charts/

28. http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2011/11/i-hate-stacked-area-charts/

30. LABELING IS THE
BLACK ART OF
VISUALIZATION
DESIGN

34. UNDERUSED:
GRIDS

36. UNDERUSED:
TEXTURE,
HATCHING

37. http://lust.nl/#projects-31

38. http://lust.nl/#projects-31

39. DATA

40. THINK HARD
ABOUT WHAT
IS MEASURED,
WHY AND HOW

42. IT IS ALL
ABOUT
RELATIONS
EVEN WHEN ALL YOU HAVE IS NUMBERS

43. USA
Annual health spending per person: $7920
Average life expectancy at birth: 78 years

44. http://blogs.ngm.com/blog_central/2009/12/the-cost-of-care.html

46. DON’T BEND
THE VISUALS
UNTIL THEY FIT
YOUR IDEAS

48. DATA
WISHUALIZATION

49. DON’T
INVENT;
DISCOVER

50. PERSISTENCE

51. http://www.amazon.com/Tidying-Up-Art-Ursus-Wehrli/dp/

52. http://www.amazon.com/Tidying-Up-Art-Ursus-Wehrli/dp/

53. LUCK FAVORS
THE BOLD
AND ITALICIZED

54. GOOD LUCK!