Data visualization for the rest of us: A beginner's guide
A webinar on how to effectively turn data into visuals that tell the story of your library's impact.
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You don’t have to be a graphic designer to present your library statistics in a way that effectively communicates value. Learn quick and easy tips for visually displaying statistics that will enable you to tell a powerful story about your library, whether your data visualization aspirations consist of adding a few Excel charts to a board report or designing a complex infographic for your website.
Presented by: Linda Hofschire, Research Analyst, Library Research Service, Colorado State Library
This is an encore presentation from the 2015 Association for Rural & Small Libraries conference.
Access Recording
- View Recording (You will be prompted to login to our free Course Catalog.)
Webinar Attachments
- View slides (pdf)
- View chat (xls)
- View captions (txt)
- Learner Guide (doc) Use alone or with others to extend your learning.
- Infographic Templates (ppt) - Letter and Legal sized
Related Resources and Links
- Library Research Service
- School Libraries and School Achievement Infographic (pdf)
- Research Institute for Public Libraries
- Infographic Software:
- Tips and Inspiration:
- Librarian Design Share
- Stephanie Evergreen
- Flowing Data
- Information is Beautiful
- Storytelling with Data
- Software Tutorials:
- Icon/Image Sources:
- IconArchive
- openclipart
- morgueFile
- Pexels
- Pixabay
- Free Image Resources (collected by WebJunction)
- Symbol Font Sources:
- Fonts:
- Colors/Palettes:
- Color Blindness: Compliant Color Use
- Chart Selection Guide: Tableau Whitepaper: Which Chart or Graph is Right for You?
- Shared in Chat:
- 5 Sites to Find Color Themes
- Online chart maker: Piktochart
- Great place for icons: Noun Project
- Publisher
Date
15 December 2015
Time
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
Venue
Webinar
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