📊Show me show me show me how you do that trick: GhostRanch Newsletter 023

Thinking "visually" has long been ingrained in our minds as early as 1st grade Venn Diagram days. (Who doesn't still love those??)

In data communications, a well-crafted pie chart or graph acts as an important bridge between artistry and science. It's the right-brain and left-brain coming together. It's the merging of the minds. Chocolate/vanilla swirl. Croissant + donut = cronut—okay you get it.

Communicating visually is nothing new but "data viz" in all its buzz-term glory has truly become mainstream. Since 2012, online searches for “infographics” have increased by over 800%.

Whether it's big data or big ideas, telling that story with graphics, images, charts—heck, even MEMES—is going to be helpful.

And no, you don't have to have a full-time data designer to do so. Read on...

Seeing: The superior sense

Anything you can SEE, you can read (understand) better.

(Dreamy graphic by our talented Allie!)

Visualizing data = visualizing success

Data viz lowdown: history, inspiration, and a resource toolbox—all in one place

How to be a data viz wiz with these "elementary photoshop" programs for data and infographics
- Infogram
- Piktochart (peep their handy HOW-TO)
- Visme
- Venngage
- Technical Illustrators have kindly assembled a comprehensive list of resources
A not-so-brief but oh-so-fascinating history of data visualization
Hubspot, always comin' in clutch with the f reebies on visual storytelling
HOLY SPACEBALLS, this solar system infographic is interactive!!!

It's not you, it's the data—the relationship between business partners and data scientists is crucial to telling a successful, data-driven story. This panel of experts talks managing data and achieving results.
"Where does the illustrator end and the infographer begin?" Self-defined graphics editor, science communicator, and infographer Jen, asks all the right Qs
Data viz guru Kaiser Fung (who has written multiple books on the subject), runs Big Data, Plainly Spoken, an award-winning blog
Once Upon a bar graph...How to tell a data story
GNSI? The Guild of Natural Science Illustrators, of course!
#Inspo: Tumblr's most reblog-able bar graphs

Allow me to re-introduce myself...

SHORTCUT CORNER

A PowerPoint tutorial series saving you time in this often dread-inducing software. In this "Getting Started" episode, top notch Ranchero and YouTube tutorial engineer Steve Sheets wants to help you become more efficient in the PPT workspace.

With easier and faster workflows, you can focus on the design and delivery of your projects. Because as designer Charles Eames once said...

"The details are not the details. They make the design."

The original "Big Data" approves.

(I had to).

Do you know a data viz wiz? (Gonna use that title as many times as possible).
Tag us! Send a carrier pigeon! We want to talk shop.
molly@ghostranch.com

In conclusion: I'm a child (at heart) and a visual learner.

It's likely your colleagues and customers are too. So don't tell a story about data without a picture to go with it.

You know how it is—if you give a mouse a cookie...

-Molly
the writer Ranchero from GhostRanch

This email was sent to <<Email Address>>
why did I get this? unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences
GhostRanch Communications · 85 E CEDAR · Zionsville, In 46077 · USA