Stop being gross with your data viz -
Data puking; learn what it is and how to spot & avoid it in your data vizzes, presentations and emails. A gross video for a gross analogy.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:14 What is Data Puking?
1:00 5 Symptoms of Data Puking
1:17 2 main ways to avoid data puking
2:11 Examples of fixing Data Puking
2:45 Wrap up
3:03 Outro
Have you ever created or experienced a slide, email or data visualization that is so dense and complicated, that you cannot work out what it is trying to communicate?
This is often the bi-product of the act of data puking; where someone has not empathised with their audience and put all of the data they have up on the screen, assuming the audience will understand it and/or have the time to find the insights buried within. Unfortunately this assumption is often incorrect, as the audience is not intimate with the data and the way it is strucutred on the screen, and it is probably their first time seeing the data, so will need a lot of time to process it without the guidance of the person presenting itbto them to make it easier to understand.
In this video we will understand what data puking is, how to look out for it and also how to help yourself or others avoid doing it.
It's surprisingly easy to do, as often the creator is rushed for time, and the quickest and easiest option is to not think about what you put on the screen and just put it all up. But that few minutes saved are a false economy, as they will often have to spend many more minutes or hours trying to backtrack and explain their insights and narrative to their audience. Or at the very worst case, their narrative and insights will be missed and not factored into the audience's decision making process!
Have you ever experienced a data puke or accidentally created one yourself? Let me know in the comments below.
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