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These are all great to use for data exploration. But if you're going to show data to a non-analyst audience, stick to bar charts (not histograms), trend lines,
by vharuck 6y ago
These are all great to use for data exploration. But if you're going to show data to a non-analyst audience, stick to bar charts (not histograms), trend lines, pie charts, and choropleth maps.
I'm not trying to condescend. I've tried for years to introduce more chart types, bit always received pushback on how hard they were to read.
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 6y agoI worked for a company that made data visualization software a couple years back (basically a Tableau type thing, but specific to one industry). Even though our end-users were analysts, we still had "trainers" who we paid to show up in-person, on-site, to teach the end-users how to read all the types of visualizations that our software could generate. The visualizations weren't tremendously complex, but when most real-world analysts still spend most of their time in Excel, a brief explanation is still required for the end-users to actually buy-in.