Picking the right chart
Designing dashboards people use · Lesson 5 of 13
Every chart answers one kind of question. In this lesson we match the question to the chart: trends over time, parts of a whole, comparisons and spread.
- Lines for change over time
- Bars for comparing things
- A number when one number is the answer
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Pie charts: no more than four slices.
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Start the value axis at zero for bars.
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Chart chooser.pdf1.2 MB
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Exercise data.csv48 KB
Course content
4 of 13 lessons done
- Welcome and what you will build 04:12
- How people read a screen 11:40
- Your project brief 06:05
- One question per card 14:22
- Picking the right chart 18:30
- Numbers that need no chart 09:48
- Quiz: chart or not? 5 questions
- The grid and the gutters 12:16
- Type that guides the eye 15:02
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Colour with a job 13:44
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Empty, loading and error states 10:30
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Testing with real data 16:18
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Final project Assignment