CP038: Data to Ink Ratio – What is it, How to optimize it, Techniques & Discussion

In the 38th session of Chandoo.org podcast, Let’s optimize data to ink ratio of your charts.

What is in this session?

In this podcast,

• Announcements
• What is Data to Ink Ratio?
• Obvious ways to optimize Data to Ink Ratio
• More ways to optimize Data to Ink ratio
• Highlighting what is important
• Conclusions

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Links & Resources mentioned in this podcast

Recommended Books for creating better charts:

• Information Dashboard Design by Stephen Few
• Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte

Optimizing data to ink ratio – Charting case studies

• Closing gaps in gender equality chart
• Why 3D pie charts are evil…
• Visualizing world education rankings

Techniques for highlighting what is important

• Display alerts in dashboards to grab user attention
• Adding meaning titles & legends to charts
• Never show simple numbers in your dashboards

Invitation to “Becoming a better analyst” Webinar

As mentioned in the podcast, I am running my first ever webinar on Wednesday, July 15th – 2015 (2PM EST). The topic is “How to become a BETTER analyst?”

Please click here to register for the webinar & become a better analyst.

Transcript of this session:

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How do you optimize Data to Ink Ratio?

What about you? Do you worry about data to ink ratio when making charts? How do you optimize it? Do you have a process for it? Please share your tips by posting a comment.

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