Visual Analytics Best Practice
Visual Analytics Best Practice
£ TBD
(Virtual or Onsite)
2 days course
The course includes the following topics:
WHAT IS VISUAL ANALYSIS?
- Visual Analytics
- Visual Analytics Process
- Advantages of Visual Analysis
- Exercise: Interpreting Visualisations
HOW DO WE PROCESS VISUAL INFORMATION?
- Memory and Processing Types
- Exercise: Identifying Types of Processing
- Cognitive Load
- Exercise: Analysing Cognitive Load
- Focus and Guide the Viewer
- Remove Visual Distractions
- Organise Information into Chunks
- Design for Proximity
- Exercise: Reducing Cognitive Load
SENSORY MEMORY
- Pre-attentive Attributes
- Quantitatively-Perceived Attributes
- Categorically-Perceived Attributes
- Exercise: Analysing Pre-attentive Attributes
- Form & Attributes
- Exercise: Using Form Effectively
- Colour & Attributes
- Exercise: Using Colour Effectively
- Position & Attributes
- Exercise: Using Position Effectively
ENSURING VISUAL INTEGRITY
- Informing without Misleading
- Gestalt Principles
- Visual Area
- Axis & Scale
- Colour
- Detail
- Exercise: Informing without Misleading
CHOOSING THE RIGHT VISUALISATION
- Comparing and Ranking Categories
- Comparing Measures
- Comparing Parts to Whole
- Viewing Data Over Time
- Charts Types for Mapping
- Viewing Correlation
- Viewing Distributions
- Viewing Specific Values
DASHBOARDS AND STORIES
- Exercise: Picking the Chart Type
- Exercise: Brainstorming Visual Best Practice
- Development Process for Dashboards and Stories
- Plan the Visualisation
- Create the Visualisation
- Test the Visualisation
- Exercise: Designing Dashboards and Stories
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