The Effective Statistician - in association with PSI

The Effective Statistician - in association with PSI

The Effective Statistician - in association with PSI

Data visualization - the often overlooked basics

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In today's episode, I review the different things you need to consider in creating an effective data visualization when presenting, which is the following:

  • Who is the audience?
    • Level of understanding
    • KOL
    • Researcher
    • Statisticians
  • What is the medium?
    • Presentation
    • Email
    • Paper
  • How much time do you have?
  • Who is the presenter? Is there one at all?
  • Understand how your visualization is used downstream

References:
Storytelling with data - cole nussbaumer knaflic
Tamara Munzners book Visualization, Analysis and Design
Datastori.es
Big book of dashboards
Makeover Monday
D3 gallery on github
Special interest group VIS
Data visualization society

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About this podcast

The podcast from statisticians for statisticians to have a bigger impact at work. This podcast is set up in association with PSI - Promoting Statistical Insight. This podcast helps you to grow your leadership skills, learn about ongoing discussions in the scientific community, build you knowledge about the health sector and be more efficient at work. This podcast helps statisticians at all levels with and without management experience. It is targeted towards the health, but lots of topics will be important for the wider data scientists community.

by Alexander Schacht and Benjamin Piske, biometricians, statisticians and leaders in the pharma industry

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