-: All right, so this week we're gonna talk
about design and visualization best practices.
And this is gonna be fairly brief,
because I can't teach you all of design
in one module, one brief lecture.
We're gonna be focusing in specifically
on data viz design techniques.
And mostly, it's gonna be me walking you
through some examples.
So I will say this, design is a skill
that must be learned by doing.
And this class, there's a challenge,
which is that the assignment,
the final capstone project,
you're building this data story
and I've told you from the get-go
and this, I think it's written
in some of the written assignment descriptions,
you don't need to actually create,
finally produced in the software designs.
You don't have to,
your final project doesn't have to be created
in Photoshop, PowerPoint, et cetera.
You can do it the entire thing, pen and paper,
whiteboard, whatever you want to use.
So a lot of the stuff that we're gonna talk
about here today includes subtleties in design
that are hard or maybe even impossible
to pull off on a whiteboard.
So if you decide to go that route for your final project,
do the best you can to apply what we talk
about here this week in design.
But if you end up going into software,
I definitely will hope to see
that you really are very thoughtful
about some of the decisions you need to make in design
so that your pieces look as, put the best foot forward,
I guess, and do the best job
to effectively communicate what needs to be communicated.
All right, so here we go.