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title: "Decisionmaking checklist" | ||
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When you're planning out your own work, it's important to make conscious decisions about what you're doing and why. I keep saying this, but one of the things I dislike the most about no-code visualization products like Excel or Tableau is that they encourage you to *not* make these decisions, but to just rely on defaults or automated suggestions. | ||
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In contrast to just going with defaults, you as a thoughtful visualization practitioner should go through the decisions you *could* make in order to determine what decisions you *should* make. This is something you do in your EDA process, as well as in sketching charts on paper. | ||
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It's also useful for understanding a chart someone else made, whether just to read it, or to revise or critique it. | ||
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## Checklist | ||
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What decisions could be / should be / were made about... | ||
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* what data to include | ||
* what data to exclude | ||
* what visual encodings to use | ||
* what types of scales to use (sequential, qualitative, diverging) | ||
* what to put on the x- and y-axes | ||
* how to scale the x- and y-axes | ||
* how to use color | ||
* how to use text | ||
* how to use annotations | ||
* where to draw attention | ||
* what conclusion to suggest | ||
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What have I forgotten from this list? |
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