930: These Charting Mistakes Undermine Your Communication with Nick Desbarats

Nick Desbarats breaks down the surprisingly common mistakes we make when visualizing data–and shares basic principles for communicating data more effectively. — YOU’LL LEARN — 1) Why most charts are confusing or ineffective 2) The top three mistakes people make with charts 3) Why a “neutral” chart is an ineffective chart Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep930 for clickable versions of the links below. — ABOUT NICK — As an independent educator and author, Nick Desbarats has taught data visualization and dashboard design to thousands of professionals in over a dozen countries at organizations like NASA, Visa, Bloomberg, Shopify, and the United Nations. He delivers main-stage talks at major data conferences and is a guest lecturer at Yale University, and his new book, Practical Charts , is an Amazon #1 Top New Release. • Book: Practical Charts: The Essential Guide to Creating Clear, Compelling Charts for Reports and Presentations • Website: PracticalReporting.com • Article: "My favorite chart type" • Article: "Connected Scatterplots Make Me Feel Dumb" • Article: "I’ve Stopped Using Box Plots. Should You?" • Article: "Why I Stopped Using Bullet Graphs (and What I Now Use Instead)" — RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — • Chart type: Marimekko • Chart type: Strip plot • SlideShare: a16z - Adreessen Horowitz • Book: The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr., E.B. White, Test Editor, and Roger Angell • Book: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman • Book: How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business by Douglas Hubbard • Book: The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self by Michael Easter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .