1. Data Visualisation

2. Contents Page 1. The Basics Pg 3 2. Presenting Data Pg 8
3. Doing Data Visualisation
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4. Design
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5. Software
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6. Examples and Inspiration
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Data visualisation:
The basics

4. Data visualisation isn’t new!
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Data visualisation isn’t new!

5. Bar charts Impact Management Programme | Slide Title
In 1858, Florence Nightingale used bar charts. in her report on the health of British soldiers

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In 1801, William Playfair offered a statistical representation of the USA, according the area of different states.

7. Maps Impact Management Programme | Slide Title
Charles Booth used maps to show how poverty was distributed in Victorian London.
In 1854 John Snow’s mapping of cholera cases helped him to identify the source of the outbreak.

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The best way to present your data depends on what you are trying to show

9. Pie chart or donut, icons
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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

10. Find out more Don’t know your scatter graph from your waffle chart?
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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.
Find out more

11. Doing data visualisation
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Doing data visualisation

12. 5 steps to data visualisation
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5 steps to data visualisation
Work out what you want to achieve and how your visualisation will be shared
Consider your audience
Prepare your data
Choose your visualisation: what’s the best option for the data you’ve got and the message you are trying to get across?
Make it! Get expert help if you need to

13. Design Keep it simple Avoid 3D Use colour to help show comparisons
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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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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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More software
Words: Taqxedo, Wordclouds, Wordle and Word tree are 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.

16. Examples and inspiration
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Examples and inspiration

17. Some charity sector examples: Student Hubs Upreach Citizens Advice
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Some charity sector examples:
Student Hubs
Upreach
Citizens Advice
Homeless Link
Street League
Macmillan
A few different infographics
NCVO’s Civil Society Almanac
FiveThirtyEight: Gun deaths in America
And further afield:
200 countries, 200 years, 4 minutes
Kiln Digital
Information is Beautiful