Data Visualization for Editorial Projects
What Does Our Data Tell Us?
A course by Diana Estefanía Rubio , Graphic Designer
Joined September 2015
About the video: What Does Our Data Tell Us?
Overview
“In this unit, I am going to explain to you how to identify, with the basic questions, what is the message that our data wants to give us. We will also go over the different chart types. I will show you what makes each one of them unique.”
In this video lesson Diana Estefanía Rubio addresses the topic: What Does Our Data Tell Us?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Data Visualization for Editorial Projects. Learn to interpret, create, and transform data into an attractive visual graph that communicates your message.
Partial transcription of the video
“What Does Our Data Tell Us? To identify what our data wants to say, it's very important to ask six basic questions. This will help us understand one or more messages coming from our numbers. In this lesson, I'll teach you how to question your data. I'll show you. How do we know what our data wants to say? Something that really helps me when I work on a database or when read the data while working on a visualization project is to ask myself six basic questions. This will help me a lot to select the graph I'll use. The questions are, Who or what? What happened? Where? When? How? Why? How much...”
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Course summary for: Data Visualization for Editorial Projects
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Category
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Software
Adobe Illustrator -
Areas
Editorial Design, Infographics, Information Design, Interactive Design

Diana Estefanía Rubio
A course by Diana Estefanía Rubio
Diana Estefanía Rubio is a graphic designer and data visualization expert with more than 10 years of experience in the field. She currently runs her own studio and works with different brands on data visualization projects or collaborates as an art director.
She also coordinates the Data Visualization department at Data Lab MX and is a professor of a Data visualization at the University of Central Mexico. Throughout her career, she has worked with brands like CNN International, Turner Broadcasting, Grupo Expansión, MMKG, and McMillan; she has also won several awards including the SND36 Award of Excellence from the Society for News Design.
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