How to declutter data visualizations (5 steps)

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Decluttering a data visualization is a simple and powerful way to improve a graph. Reducing the amount of noise in a data visualization makes it easier for your audience to focus on the most important messages and supporting data. Learn five tips to identify and reduce clutter within data visualizations and see these tips applied to examples from the book, Storytelling With Data and author Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic.
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00:00 Intro
01:26 I find it easiest to focus my attention when...
03:05 5 steps to declutter
04:04 Gestalt principles of visual perception
07:26 Example: identify & remove clutter
10:41 Example: employing visual order
16:13 It's easy to spot a hawk in a sky full of pigeons
16:48 Example: creating clear contrast
20:05 If it's hard to read, it's hard to do
21:20 Tips to avoid overcomplicating
22:52 Example: strip down & build up
27:19 Recap and outro
BONUS RESOURCES
● Gestalt Principles: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt...
● Alternatives to diagonal axis labels: www.storytellingwithdata.com/...
● What is the best balance between engaging and informing?: community.storytellingwithdat...
● What is data visualization?: - storytellingwithdata.libsyn.c...
● SWD chats with Steven Franconeri: • SWD chats with Steven ...
● Declutter and Focus: Empirically Evaluating Design Guidelines for Effective Data Communication: visualthinking.psych.northwes...
● Colin Ware: Information Visualization: Perception for Design: amzn.to/3bT868B
● If it's hard to read, it's hard to do: study by Hyunjin Song and Norbert Schwarz - Oct 2008. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full...
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@rdatta 3 месяца назад

This video is 8 years old (in 2024) but I'd say it's still a brilliant and exceptional discussion of the subject. The grounding in Gestalt principles to the final example were all very well done. Highly recommended. As are the speaker's books.

@TWGTravelwithGandharv 3 года назад

Amazingly Simplified and Detailed! The last example of retail prices was awesomely done! Thank so you so much for sharing this!

@miriamngombe6955 3 года назад

Awesome examples and I love the interactive nature of your videos. "Pause", "think", "imagine"... No passively staring at the screen- I can feel my brain cogs turning.

@ahsanmohammed1 2 года назад

Fantastic! Beautiful! Well presented! Meaningful! Helpful! Thank you!

@kapamagicman 7 лет назад

Definitely like the last example on how you transformed something complicated to a simple yet effective slide. Very impressed. FYI I bought the book.

@huangsizhe190 Год назад

This video is amazing and exactly what I searched for on google. After 10 videos, I finally found it. I will now go and watch the other videos on this channels, cheers!

@parniasebti3579 3 года назад

The best video about data visualization!

@gmensah2008 8 лет назад

This is really great content, it's funny how the hardest things to notice are usually the one right in front of us! So much value there! I just ordered the book, can't wait to get my hands on it! Thank you.

@PeterTremblayeh 8 лет назад

Well done! Very good examples that really explained how to improve data visualizations by reducing the clutter on graphs and slides.

@flaviolimaj 6 лет назад

Great vídeo, Cole.. It makes me want to revisit so much of what I've done already

@ImDavidBizar 7 лет назад

Awesome video Cole, thanks a lot. I'm doing a UC David coursera's specialization in data visualization and this has been a great complement to it. I like the look of your website and the book seems great too. Keep at it :)

@tobiaslundborg2073 2 года назад

Great stuff, Cole! I'm getting intensely inspired to continue my adventures in Tableau public :)

@jrgarciasanta 7 лет назад

Awesome. Great content.

@ReynaHB 3 года назад

Nice explanation!

@abnersangalang3849 Год назад

wow! this content is gold!

@pedrohenriquecarneiro904 Год назад

Very nice!

@Papabear8867 2 года назад

Great! Thank you for this helpful information! Love your videos!

@storytellingwithdata 2 года назад

Thanks for your support! Let us know if there are specific types of videos you'd like us to share.

@itisdaniel4084 2 года назад

great video!!

@911alps 3 года назад

😍awesome

@robertgutierrez3733 Год назад

Gracias por excelente contenido, soy de colombia y compre los 2 libros, saludos

@storytellingwithdata 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching and we hope you enjoy the books!

@offdiet 8 лет назад

10:27 - from an aesthetic perspective I agree with you, but i don't buy the "cognitive load" argument: i would say in the "After" version, it is much harder to guess the value for the November data point than in "Before". "After" is also misleading, as it no longer shows the discrete nature of your input data.

@gmensah2008 8 лет назад

+offdiet It is indeed harder to guess the value, but I don't think the point of a graph is value guessing, more so a graph is used to tell a story. In the after version, the story is told without the viewer having to do much effort, it's almost as easy as reading a sentence, it flows naturally... "received" ..."processed"..."ok there's a widening gap"..."started around July"... If this is a revenue or sales report, that graph tells the whole story. In the before version, at least for me, I don't know how or where to enter the graph, there's hesitation as to where to look for meaning, eventually I look below at the index, then I look up at the graph. It's not fundamentally hard to do so, but the story doesn't "come out" right away, I have to figure out what's the way to enter the story, if that makes sense.

@agape13 3 года назад

🏆

@crounds3409 8 лет назад

Very awesome stuff Cole. Brilliant!

@mikkelkrogsholm 8 лет назад

Great video! And loved the book.

@Msggwu 7 лет назад

Love your contents! I also watched your talk at Google and thought your are a great presenter who uses facial expressions and gestures very well! It'd be great if you can sometimes switch to recording view of you when you are talking for this kind of lecture video.

@ImDavidBizar 7 лет назад

Gestalt Principle: 4:28

@sunderipranata4368 6 лет назад

Thanks! Your lesson was great! Id like to purhase your book ❤️ by the way, if i may know or if anyone knows, what application are you using to create all those graphs? Thanks!

@storytellingwithdata 2 года назад

Hi Sunderi, all the graphs were created in Excel.