Data Communication: Analysis → Visualisations → Presentation

A practical guide for creating compelling, impactful presentations when communicating data analysis.

What you'll learn

Data Communication: Learn how to present your data analysis to others with clarity and focus.

Visualisations: Learn how to create visualisations that guide your audience's attention to the message you want to communicate.

Presentation Design: Learn how to embed your visualisations and commentary into a presentation that takes your audience on a journey.

Data-Driven Storytelling: Learn how to construct a narrative framework that makes your analysis memorable and compelling.

Presentation Skills: Learn how to use tone, body language and emotion to engage your audience.

Design Principles: Learn how to use colour, contrast and size to ensure your audience is drawn to the key message.

Excel Skills: Learn how to create the most common visualisations in Excel, and how to turn Excel defaults into beautiful, clear visuals.

Powerpoint Skills: Learn how to embed visualisations into Powerpoint Presentations to create seamless, professional presentation slides

Requirements

Some basic knowledge of data analysis is useful but not required.

Description

Too often, excellent data analysis gets lost when communicated with others. This course shows you how to communicate your analysis with clarity, class and impact.Learn how to create beautiful visualisations that guide your audience's attention and tell a compelling data-driven story. Weave these into a narrative that takes your audience on a journey of understanding that culminates with them grasping the key messages you want them to take away from your presentation.What's in the Course?The course is structured in 4 parts - each an essential component of perfect data communication.Understanding Your Audience. Knowing who you are presentating to dramatically affects how your present your findings and what to include. This sections shows you how to set scene in a way that ensures your presentation includes everything your audience needs and doesn't waste their time.Choosing the Right Visualisation. Too often people select the wrong visualisation for the data they are sharing. This sections shows you the do's and don't's for the most common visualisations, and explores alternatives, such as text and tables.Crafting the Perfect Visualisation. This sections introduces a two-step process for creating a stunning graphic. First, I show you how to strip a visualisation down to its bare essentials, so that it is clutter-free and sitraction-free. Next, I show you how to use colour, contrast, size and more to guide your audience's attention to the key message.Telling a Data-Driven Story. Even the most compelling visualisations need to be embedded in a good narrative to capture your audience's attention and enthusiasm. Here, we explore ideas of narrative structure and presentation skills  so that your analysis really speaks to your audience.As well as video lessons, the course also has activities and assignments for you to put what you have learned into practice.How Can This Course Help You?The world of business and data is full of bad visualisations and communication. Stand out from the crowd by knowing how to present analysis properly.Make data clear and impactful: Learn how to transform complex data into clear, visually engaging stories that captivate your audience.Boost your professional skills: Develop data communication techniques that are highly valued across industries, from business and education to research and marketing.Tell compelling stories with data: Master the art of weaving data and narrative together to influence decisions and convey key insights effectively.Elevate your presentations: Design charts, graphs, and visuals that not only look professional but also drive your message home.Enhance your Excel know-how: Gain hands-on experience creating and customizing impactful visualizations using standard Excel tools.Communicate with confidence: Apply best practices to simplify your data visuals, highlight important points, and ensure your audience understands your message clearly.A Little About Me…I'm a data analyst, statistician and teacher based in London. I work with business professionals who use statistics and data analysis in their work, as well as teaching students learning Mathematics and Statistics. I've helped 10s of thousands of business professionals and students understand statistics, visualisations and data analysis. Here's what I offer:Individual Support. As with all my courses, I answer all my students' questions myself, so if you ever have questions or comments, I'm here to help!Highly Rated Intructor. I'm one of the highest rated instructors. Please do check out my reviews from this and other courses. My students value my personable approach, subject knowledge, friendly delivery and clarity.Satisfaction Guarantee. If you're not completely satisfied with the course, you can get a full refund within 30 days of purchase. Woody

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Setting the Scene

Lecture 2 Know Your Audience

Lecture 3 Audience Analysis

Lecture 4 Defining a Purpose

Section 3: Types of Visualisation

Lecture 5 Bar Charts

Lecture 6 Line Graphs

Lecture 7 Scatter Graphs

Lecture 8 Charts to Avoid

Lecture 9 Text and Tables

Section 4: Guiding Attention

Lecture 10 Creating a Perfect Visualisation

Lecture 11 Guiding Attention

Lecture 12 The Perfect Visualisation - Example 1 - Bar Chart

Lecture 13 Bar Chart Walkthrough

Lecture 14 The Perfect Visualisation - Example 2 - Stacked Bar Chart

Lecture 15 Stacked Bar Chart Walkthrough

Lecture 16 The Perfect Visualisation - Example 3 - Line Graph

Lecture 17 Line Graph Walkthrough

Lecture 18 The Perfect Visualisation - Example 4 - Scatter Graph

Lecture 19 Scatter Graph Walkthrough

Lecture 20 It's Your turn!

Section 5: Telling a Story

Lecture 21 Telling a Data-Driven Story

Lecture 22 The Structure of a Data-Driven Story

Lecture 23 Storytelling Techniques

Business professionals,Data analysts,Leaders,Data scientists,Anyone interested in improving their communication skills