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Finding stories in your data - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Infographics: Planning and Wireframing
Finding stories in your data
Data visualization and infographics are all about storytelling. Telling stories through pictures, charts, and diagrams is incredibly powerful if done right, but in order to tell a good story, you have to find stories hidden in your data. In this lesson, I want to talk about three common stories to look for in the data you have. It's easiest to spot stories in data when data is organized, simplified, and sorted. That's why I like to use Excel to store data, as we've discussed in the previous video. Now let's open up the exercise spreadsheet for this video, and talk about story spotting. You may recognize this spreadsheet for multi-channel data. It's the one we started working on in an earlier video. It contains multiple tabs, each tab with a different set of data about charity donations, and it contains this Summary tab at the very beginning to tell us what's on each sheet. When you look at a set of data, the three easiest stories to spot are 1, outliers; 2, trends; and 3…
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Intro to planning and wireframing2m 9s
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Determining what to visualize4m 4s
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Organizing your data in a spreadsheet4m 5s
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Finding stories in your data4m 5s
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Choosing the right visualizations5m 7s
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Planning the infographic's dimensions3m 10s
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Wireframing a basic layout with boxes7m 34s
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