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Simple tips and tools for using color in data visualization

Simple tips and tools for using color in data visualization

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Simple tips and tools for using color in data visualization

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- [Instructor] Color is incredibly powerful, and equally as dangerous and difficult. It adds visual interest to your visualizations while potentially increasing readability of your data. But just as it can make it more readable and beautiful, color can just as easily make your visualization a hot mess. Following just a few simple rules can keep you from making a visual disaster. There's a lot of established thinking about how to use color in design, but you could spend plenty of time learning about how to combine colors and what colors mean, and human psychology and cultural references. In fact you could do some of that here on LinkedIn Learning. Anyway, the main thing you need to understand is that color is probably the hardest thing to learn. You might be able to learn it, but it's definitely not guaranteed. And unfortunately, many of the tools you use, yeah, I'm looking at you, Excel, they don't help, because they…

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