Data visualization is in a period of growth as a professional field, which means there are more tools and datasets available than ever before. It’s exciting, but can also become overwhelming or repetitive. To make the creative leap beyond the basics requires drawing upon personal inspirations and thinking about your audience. It means being open to feedback and rethinking assumptions about what works well. <\/p>\n
As our focus shifts to your personal projects, here is a collection of short videos from creative data visualization practitioners discussing their processes and inspirations.<\/p>\n
Interview: Audience, Text & Narrative Arc<\/span><\/p>\n This video is a condensed interview with Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic, an author and corporate design expert. Her brand and first book, Storytelling With Data<\/a>, is well-known for making data visualization less intimidating. (If I assigned a textbook for this class, it would be that one, and you can often find a used copy for about $20.) In this interview, she talks about the importance of audience, text and narrative arc.<\/p>\n