Foundation Data Visualisation
Learn to create professional graphs and data visualisations using the tools you already know.
Interested in a Workshop?Making your data-insights easy to grasp is crucial
Busy graphs and tables make your audience work hard.
Your message can fray if people’s minds are tied up figuring out what a graphic is trying to convey. When the choice of graphic used is less than ideal and not well-made, its insights can remain elusive or misunderstood.
Delays in grasping the message can lead to an inquisition to aid understanding. Confusion can lead to lack of confidence. Ultimately, decision-making and action can be delayed.
Clarity builds your audience’s confidence
Creating the right type of graphic or visual for your purpose is essential.
Selecting the best graphic or visual device to communicate each message with clarity is a gift for your audience. You are smoothing their path to understanding what you want to say.
Often, people resort to the same types of graphs again and again. However, there are many options even within the basic graph types, and even more when you’re more adventurous.
Building audience confidence calls for well-designed visuals
Engaging graphs and visualisations draw the eye to insights.
Many people are expected to create engaging graphs and visualisations yet, most have never been on a data visualisation course.
On our Data Visualisation training, you can learn both how to choose the perfect graphic device and how to design eye-catching visuals. That way, your insights are conveyed swiftly and clearly and your audience can make decisions and act with greater confidence.
Foundation Data Visulisation teaches the key principles of visualisation and design to make sure the graphs and charts you produce in Excel and PowerPoint are clear, concise and engaging.
Topics include (but not limited to) :
Common Charts
The most common charts and knowing when and how to use them.
Titles/Headlines
Crafting clear, meaningful, insightful headlines and titles.
Less Clutter
Removing clutter to leave only the essential information needed.
Data Labels
Understanding how to use data labels to enhance your visualisations.
Axis
The best practice for axis and clear visualisations.
Direct Attention
Learn how to use techniques to direct attention to your key insights
Colour
Learn key colour theories and how it relates to data visualisation.
Images
Use images in your visualisations to give context and meaning.
And many more ...
customised for your business
Foundation Data Visualisation teaches the fundamentals of data visualisation using the tools you use everyday, ie. Excel and Powerpoint. Following the basic rules of visualisation and graphic design you'll soon be able to elevate your graphs and charts to professional level. This workshop can be tailered to use example graphs that you would produce in your business. Contact us to see how we can tailor this workshop to your needs.
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Flexible delivery
Foundation Data Visualisation can be delivered face-to-face either on your premises, or at our training facility in Oxfordshire. Alternatively, this workshop can be delivered online via Zoom or Teams. Contact us for more details
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Storytelling With Data
Storytelling
Data becomes more valuable once it has been mined for actionable insights and crafted into illuminating stories. If you’d like your team(s) to learn to craft stories with data, we’d be delighted to help, so please get in touch.
You can see our full range of workshops here
A few commonly asked questions about our training
There’s often confusion in business about what exactly storytelling in business is and how it can be effectively taught. It’s worth taking the time to see the answers to these commonly asked questions before you contact so you know what you may expect from our training and our approach.
Why do you run so many different storytelling workshops?
Storytelling in business is a powerful skill. We have found that people need to learn storytelling skills within the context of their day-to-day work. We offer context relevant courses that enable participants to apply their new-found storytelling skills to their work right away. Please get in touch to discuss your group's learning needs.
Can we have a workshop that includes content from two different workshops?
Yes, we often blend workshop modules so that we address a range of learning needs in a workshop programme. You may need a longer workshop to accommodate all elements. In some cases, two programmes differ so much that they need to be run separately. Please get in touch to discuss your group's learning needs.
How does Storytelling with Data differ from Data Visualisation?
These two programmes are completely different, yet highly complementary. Storytelling with Data focuses on learning to discover, craft and tell insightful and persuasive stories with data. Data Visualisation focusses on learning to bring data to life visually so that the insights conveyed from graphs, tables, or infographics are clear and easy to grasp. Since these two workshops are highly complementary, many clients book both to support their teams. Please get in touch to discuss your group's learning needs.
Can you provide training for a large group of people?
While most of our workshops are suitable for smaller groups, we can and do run workshops for larger groups too, depending on the context. Please get in touch to discuss your group's learning needs.
We have a limited time for training, do you run shorter workshops?
The more time you allocate to training, the deeper the learning will be. While we recommend a minimum of a day for most of our workshops to support participant learning, we can and do run shorter sessions in certain situations. Please get in touch to discuss your group's learning needs.
Contact us if you have any further questions or would like to book a workshop
Let's TalkA selection OF our wonderful clients
We have delivered storytelling and/or visualisation training or crafted stories and developed visual presentations for these clients. Some clients have benefitted from both our unique learning and creative services
