445: How to Make Your Charts Awesome with Stephanie Evergreen
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 31 May 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Stephanie Evergreen discusses the importance of effective data visualization and shares tips and tricks for creating charts that best communicate data findings.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) How charts can transform culture
2) How to make use of tools you already have to make great visuals
3) How to determine the most appropriate chart for your data
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— ABOUT STEPHANIE —
Dr. Stephanie Evergreen is an internationally-recognized data visualization and design expert. She has trained future data nerds worldwide through keynote presentations and workshops, for clients including Mastercard, Adobe, Verizon, Head Start, American Institutes for Research, Rockefeller Foundation, Brookings Institute, and the United Nations. She writes a popular blog on data presentation at StephanieEvergreen.com. Her two books on designing high-impact graphs, slideshows, and reports both hit #1 on Amazon bestseller lists weeks before they were even released. This Spring Dr. Evergreen is publishing the second edition of one of those bestsellers and a brand new sketchbook with templates for making infographics and dashboards.
• Stephanie’s Book: “Effective Data Visualization: The Right Chart for the Right Data”
• Stephanie’s companion book: “The Data Visualization Sketchbook”
• Stephanie’s Website: StephanieEvergreen.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Alternative charting software: Keynote, Prezi, think-cell, Mekko Graphics, Adobe Illustrator
• Data visualizations: Marimekko Chart, Word cloud, Dumbbell Dot Plot
• Movie: An Inconvenient Truth
• Study: Seeing data visualized makes it more believable
• Book: Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McKitis. |
| 0:16.1 | Hello and thanks for joining us for episode 445 |
| 0:21.8 | with Stephanie Evergreen. |
| 0:23.1 | Stephanie is talking about making your charts outstanding |
| 0:28.1 | and she is a true pro on the topic. |
| 0:30.5 | So you'll learn one, how charts can transform culture. |
| 0:33.2 | Two, how to make use of tools you already have to make great visuals and three, how to determine |
| 0:38.0 | the most appropriate chart for your data. |
| 0:40.6 | So if you want to check out the show notes of the transcript or the links to Adams we referenced, it's over to also make your job. your internationally recognized data visualization and design expert. |
| 0:53.3 | She's trained future data nerds worldwide through keynote presentations and workshops |
| 0:56.9 | for clients including a Mastercard, Adobe, Verizon, Head Start, American Institutes for |
| 1:01.0 | Research, Rocketfeller Foundation, Brookings Institute, and the United Nations. |
| 1:05.0 | She writes a popular blog on data presentation at Stephanie Evergreen.com. |
| 1:08.6 | Her two books on designing high-impact graphs, slides shows, and reports both hit number one on Amazon bestseller lists, |
| 1:14.0 | weeks before they even released. This spring, Dr. Evergreen is back with a second edition of |
| 1:18.8 | one of those bestsellers and a brand new sketchbook with templates for making infographics and dashboards. |
| 1:24.6 | So thanks to Stephanie for hanging out with us and thanks to our sponsors. |
| 1:27.6 | Check them out. |
| 1:29.8 | Here is Stephanie. |
| 1:31.0 | Stephanie, thanks so much for joining us here on the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
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