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Data Visualisation

This document provides guidance on data visualization. It discusses choosing the appropriate type of visualization based on the data and message, such as using bar charts for comparisons and pie charts for parts of a whole. It also outlines the steps to creating visualizations, including determining the goal, audience, data, and appropriate format. Finally, it recommends several software options for creating different types of visualizations, from icons to maps to dashboards.

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Data Visualisation

This document provides guidance on data visualization. It discusses choosing the appropriate type of visualization based on the data and message, such as using bar charts for comparisons and pie charts for parts of a whole. It also outlines the steps to creating visualizations, including determining the goal, audience, data, and appropriate format. Finally, it recommends several software options for creating different types of visualizations, from icons to maps to dashboards.

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Data visualisation

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Contents

Contents Slides

Presenting data 3-4


Doing data visualization (design and software) 5-8
Examples and inspiration 9
Presenting data
The best way to present your data depends on what you are trying to show

What you want to show Best way to present


Key facts and figures Icons, images
Comparisons Bar charts
Parts of a whole Pie chart or donut, icons
Change over time Line graph
Relationships between different factors Scatter plot
Geographical spread Heat map
Text analysis Word cloud

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Find out more

Don’t know your scatter graph from your waffle chart?


Try Ann K. Emery for a beautifully simple review of these
and much more besides.

Not sure which option is best for you?


Try this to help you choose.

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Doing data visualisation
5 steps to data visualisation

1. Work out what you want to achieve and


how your visualisation will be shared
2. Consider your audience
3. Prepare your data
4. Choose your visualisation: what’s the best
option for the data you’ve got and the
message you are trying to get across?
5. Make it! Get expert help if you need to

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Doing data visualisation
Design

● Keep it simple
● Avoid 3D
● Use colour to help show comparisons
● Put things in a logical order
● Remove unnecessary grid lines
● Have clear titles and labels

This advice draws on


NPC’s guide to data visualisation

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Doing data visualisation
Software

Icons: if all you need is images to break up the text, the Noun Project has a wide range of free
icons to download and use.

Infographics: try Icon Array and Piktochart. Canva can also help bring different types of data
together into one graphic.

Maps: give Carto a shot. It’s user friendly and supplies great visuals. Datawrapper, amCharts
and Highcharts are also that can help you create a range of infographics, charts and maps.

Virtual maps: Netlytic specialises in visual analysis of social media and Mindomo can translate
information into mind maps.

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Doing data visualisation
More software

Words: Wordclouds and Word tree all tools to analyse and show the frequent words in a body of
text.

Dashboards: If you want to create visualisations for a large amount of data, and build beautiful
graphical analysis and dashboards, get stuck into Tableau. There is a version that is free to use but
take heed – it automatically makes your data public. Non-profit licences for Tableau Desktop are
available for a fraction of the price.

Business intelligence: tools like Power BI and Qliksense/Qlikview can help you create interactive
visualisations, dashboards and apps.

For charities with quantitative data to upload, Datawrapper, amCharts and Highcharts are open
source tools that can help you create a range of infographics, charts and maps.

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Examples and inspiration

Some charity sector examples:


Student Hubs
Homeless Link
Street League
Macmillan
NCVO’s Civil Society Almanac
FiveThirtyEight: Gun deaths in America

And further afield:


200 countries, 200 years, 4 minutes
Kiln Digital
Information is Beautiful

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