Dates and location
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Dates and location
Pricing
Hours
Description
This course is designed to elevate your skills in creating impactful and clear visual representations of information. This course explores the foundational principles and techniques for effective data visualization, ensuring your visualizations are both compelling and accurate.
Explore the principles of cognitive load theory to master techniques for simplifying complex visuals, enhancing comprehension, and reducing cognitive overload. Learn how to select the most appropriate charts and graphs that align with your audience goals.
Avoid pitfalls and maintain accuracy by mastering best practices that uphold the trustworthiness and integrity of your data. Gain insights into visual design elements by leveraging white space, color, size, shape and layout to craft visuals that are not only clear but impactful.
By the end of this course, you will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to create data visualizations that communicate your message with clarity and precision.
Note: This course is tool agnostic. Tools such as Tableau or Power BI will not be covered in this session.
Topics Include:
- Cognitive Load Theory: Techniques for simplifying visuals to enhance comprehension and minimize cognitive overload for clearer data interpretation.
- Choosing the Right Visuals: Strategies for selecting the most appropriate charts and graphs that align with audience goals and support effective decision-making.
- Avoiding Misleading Visuals: Best practices to ensure accuracy, trustworthiness, and integrity in data visualization.
- Visual Design Elements: Effective use of white space, color, size, shape, layout, and pre-attentive attributes to create clear and impactful visuals.
- Dashboard Best Practices: Essential dos and don’ts for designing intuitive and informative dashboards.
- Branding Consistency: Incorporating design elements that align with branding and corporate identity to maintain visual consistency.
Key Takeaways
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Create effective visualizations to simplify complex data and make insights clear and actionable, avoiding unnecessary clutter or overly complicated graphics.
- Tailor visualizations to the audience's needs and level of data literacy, ensuring that the visuals resonate and drive decision-making.
- Use accurate scales, labels, and proportions to prevent distortion of the data and ensure trustworthiness.
- Highlight the most important data points and insights to ensure they stand out and are easily identified by the audience.
Who Will Benefit
This course is ideal for professionals who work with data and need to communicate insights effectively to various stakeholders. Participants may range from beginners with a basic understanding of data to intermediate users who are familiar with visualization tools but seek to master best practices for clarity, accuracy, and impact.
How to Access the Course
This course is a live webinar. You must attend the live course to receive verifiable CPD hours. We recommend you join five minutes prior to the scheduled starting time. To get the full experience of this interactive course, use a computer that has video and microphone capabilities.
Electronic material can be accessed one week prior to the course and should be downloaded in advance.
Registration, cancellation, withdrawal and all other CPA Ontario PD policies can be found here.
Speaker(s)
Salma Sultana, is an independent consultant specializing in effective data communication strategies, backed by 2 decades of corporate experience in the field of Business Strategy and Analytics. Over the years, she has worked with stakeholders ranging from C-Suite executives to external clients from multiple continents (and subcontinents), gaining deep insights into meeting diverse business needs.