Data Stories: Create and Understand Data Visualizations
How to create more effective data visualizations, avoid illegible charts, and read a scatterplot.
- By Upside Staff
- December 12, 2018
![Flowing Data](/-/media/TDWI/Upside/newsletters/2018/12/121218VizQuestion.jpg)
When creating a data visualization, you need to decide what question(s) you are trying to answer. This article from Flowing Data explains how to refine your visualizations by choosing the right focus.
![spaghetti plots](/-/media/TDWI/Upside/newsletters/2018/12/121218VizSpaghetti.jpg)
Displaying too many lines on one plot can make the resulting visualization impossible to read. This article demonstrates several techniques for clarifying this type of chart.
![scatterplot](/-/media/TDWI/Upside/newsletters/2018/12/121218VizScatter.jpg)
Scatterplots can encode a lot of information, but how quickly can you read them? The Datawrapper blog walks you through several quick ways to gain insight from a scatterplot.