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.