Presented as a free seminar on 4/19/12 by Laura Quinn of Idealware. You've got data. How do you transform it into charts, graphs, and maps that will help your audience understand the data and move them to take action? In this online seminars, we'll talk about the types of chart and map formats that might be useful to you, and then take a look at a number of the software packages that can help you create data graphics for both web and print publications.

1. Creating Great Charts, Maps, and
Diagrams
April 2012
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4. Introductions
Laura Quinn
Executive Director,
Idealware
Kyle Andrei

5. Introductions: www.idealware.org

6. Resources and Services From Idealware
Online seminars
The Field Guide to and courses
Software for Commissioned articles
Nonprofits and reports
Close to 300 existing free
Consulting to In-person training articles and reports
networks
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7. What We’ll Cover
• Six principles of data graphics
• What kind of information do you have?
• Numeric
• Location
• Conceptual
• Bringing it all together
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8. Six Principles of Good
Information Graphics

9. 1. Define Your Point
Pretty much
every chart has
a point of view

10. 2. Accurately Represent Your Data
In particular, treat your axes with respect
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11. 3. Tailor it to Your Audience
From Princeton Election Consortium

12. 4. The Simpler the Better
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13. 5. Ensure it Speaks for Itself

14. 6. Remove Everything You Can
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15. What Kind of Information Do You Have?
Numerical

16. Quantitative Data
Bar Charts Line Charts
Plotted Chart Pie Chart

17. Bar Charts: An Example
From Children
Now’s “2009
California Report
Card,” showing the
relationship between
race and preschool
enrollment

18. Bubble Charts: An Example
The Sunlight
Foundation’s
interactive Many
Eyes chart showing
the relationship
between political
party funding and the
party in power

19. Tools for Charting

20. Microsoft Excel Part of the Microsoft Office
Suite. $18 per license for
nonprofits on TechSoup.
Installed on Windows or
Mac.
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21. DeltaGraph
$129 per
license
Installed, Mac
or Windows

22. Google Docs Spreadsheet
Free
Online at
docs.google.com

23. Many Eyes Free
Online at
manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com
Also consider:
Google Docs
Swivel
Business

24. What Kind of Information Do You Have?
Location Data

25. Pins on a Map
Consider Google
Maps or Google
Earth
Yadkin Riverkeeper’s
Google map showing
what they consider to
be “pollution sites”
created by Alcoa, a
large corporate
producer of
aluminum.

26. Thematic Mapping
Default map format – copyright Microsoft
Consider Microsoft MapPoint or Golden MapViewer

27. What Kind of Information Do You Have?
Conceptual

28. Flow Chart/Decision Tree

29. Hierarchical Chart

30. Process
Step 1 Step 2 Step 3

31. Relationships

32. Mind Map
A Graphic Guide to Facebook Portraits
BY DOOGIE HORNER
http://www.fastcompany.com/1692957/facebook-profile-picture-flowchart

33. Tools for Conceptual Visualizations

34. Visio

35. Omnigraph

36. Gliffy

37. PowerPoint

38. FreeMind
Also consider Mindmeister or
PersonalBrain

39. Bringing them Together

40. Infographics
Princeton University
www.princeton.edu/~ina/infographics

41. More Infographics
By M+R Strategies, From NTEN Change Journal http://www.nten.org/ntenchange

42. Dashboards
http://dashboard.imamuseum.org/

43. Other Resources
• Visual.ly
• Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
• Infosthetics.com

44. Questions?

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