Quick tips for visualizing data: Examples from the COVID-19 pandemic

Publication language
English
Date published
01 Dec 2020
Type
Rapid Learning Review
Keywords
Data visualisation & analysis, Data literacy
Organisations
Centre for Humanitarian Data

The choices we make when we visualise data influence how people see, understand, and react to the underlying data.

This course includes a series of slides to build your knowledge, a set of five short videos to demonstrate creating a graph and a short quiz to test your knowledge. The expected length of time to complete all segments is 25 minutes.

In this introductory session to visualising data using examples from the COVID-19 pandemic, you will learn:

  1. best practices for designing thoughtful data visualisations;
  2. how to identify and visually represent different relationships in data; and
  3. how to prepare and structure your data in order to make a simple line graph.

You can access it by following this link.