In-House: Designing Impactful Data Visualisations

In this session, delegates use examples of publicly available interactive visualisations and discuss:

• What makes them effective
• What techniques do they use?
• Are they interesting and do they achieve their objectives?

In this session delegates will be introduced to the following free and publicly available visualisation tools:

• JavaScript
• Python
• Power BI
• R programming
• Tableau

In hands-on exercises delegates will practice techniques to build interactive visualisations from public sector datasets.

• Slice data: slicers filter our dataset to focus on areas of interest.
• Apply slicers and look at the different types of slicers (list, slider,..)
• Navigate hierarchies with drill down
• Practice drilling down from top level summary to bottom level detail
• Utilise cascading sliders
• Drill through:  jump from a summary dashboard that focuses on the nitty-gritty details of an item
• Build in Interactions between visuals

You will learn to use advanced techniques including how to:

• Utilise storytelling techniques
• Create tailored dashboards to follow through a logical narrative – especially useful in presentation to others
• Implement what-if capabilities
• Use tooltips and building custom tooltips
• Creating synchronized slicers
• Use of colour to signify a value that requires attention

• Gain editing techniques to improve your visualisation
• Use computer programming to refine, and improve your visualisation
• Make sure your visualisation is compelling