Find help on campus
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Prairie Research Institute Strategic CommunicationsAvailable to help you design better graphics.
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Research Posters LibGuidePoster sessions at conferences and professional meetings are a way to visually convey the details of your research or conclusions. This guide will offer you the basics in design, content and printing resources.
Best design practices for data visualization
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11 Design Tips for Data VisualizationOutlines some easy rules and techniques you can follow to make your data look better.
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A guide to writing alt text accessible image captionsMaking your social media profiles accessible to the majority of people stumbling across your posts is an intentional practice. From Instagram and Twitter photo descriptions to captioning audio on your TikTok videos, you have to consciously add these accessibility considerations. It's something you should absolutely do to ensure your accounts are navigable by people with various disabilities. Don't fret: You have most of the tools at your disposal.
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Colour me better: Fixing figures for colour blindnessImages can be made more accessible by choosing hues, shapes and textures carefully.
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Data to viz: A A collection of dataviz caveatsExamples of how not to do graphs and charts.
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Envisioning Information
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ISBN: 0961392118Publication Date: 1990-05-01This book provides practical advice about how to explain complex material by visual means, with extraordinary examples to illustrate the fundamental principles of information displays. -
The Functional Art: an Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization
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ISBN: 0321834739Publication Date: 2012-08-22In this practical introduction to understanding and using information graphics, you'll learn how to use data visualisations as tools to see beyond lists of numbers and variables and achieve new insights into the complex world around us. Regardless of the kind of data you're working with-business, science, politics, sports, or even your own personal finances-this book will show you how to use statistical charts, maps, and explanation diagrams to spot the stories in the data and learn new things from it.
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How Pew Research Center uses small multiple chartsDescribe some of the things the Center’s staff considers when designing small multiples for publication.
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Present Your Data Like a ProWhile a good presentation has data, data alone doesn’t guarantee a good presentation. It’s all about how that data is presented. The quickest way to confuse your audience is by sharing too many details at once. The only data points you should share are those that significantly support your point — and ideally, one point per chart.
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The Science of Presenting Data Visualizations EffectivelyIf you find yourself struggling with how to use data visualizations effectively, this blog post offers some science-backed tips to help you create a story for your data, keep your audience engaged, and know when to explain things or remain quiet.
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
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ISBN: 0961392142Publication Date: 2001-07-09The classic book on statistical graphics, charts, tables. Theory and practice in the design of data graphics, 250 illustrations of the best (and a few of the worst) statistical graphics, with detailed analysis of how to display data for precise, effective, quick analysis. Design of the high-resolution displays, small multiples. Editing and improving graphics. The data-ink ratio. Time-series, relational graphics, data maps, multivariate designs. Detection of graphical deception: design variation vs. data variation. Sources of deception. Aesthetics and data graphical displays. -
Visual Explanations
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ISBN: 0961392126Publication Date: 1997-01-01This book explores the representation of verbs, mechanisms and motion, process and dynamics, cause and effect, explanation and narrative. In explicating the principles, the author cites such examples as visual evidence to decide to launch the space shuttle Challenger, a supercomputer animation of a thunderstorm, stage magic, and disinformation design. Many examples show redesigns comparing before and after. -
Visualize This
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ISBN: 9781394214860Publication Date: 2024-05-29Visualize This teaches you a data-first approach from a practical point of view. You'll start by exploring what your data has to say, and then you'll design visualizations that are both remarkable and meaningful. -
The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics
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ISBN: 9780393347289Publication Date: 2013-12-16In this book, you will learn to: choose the best chart that fits your data; the most effective way to communicate with decision makers when you have five minutes of their time; how to chart currency fluctuations that affect global business; how to use color effectively; how to make a graphic "colorful" even if only black and white are available.
