Spice up your standard charts

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# Spice up your<br>standard charts
**Ijeamaka Anyene**  
**Toronto Data Workshop | August 6th, 2021**
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## About Me
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### 👋 I'm Ijeamaka Anyene
### 👩‍💻 Senior Data Analyst, <br> Kaiser NorCal Division of Research
🐦 [@ijeamaka_a](https://twitter.com/ijeamaka_a)  
🕸 [ijeamaka-anyene.netlify.app](https://ijeamaka-anyene.netlify.app/)

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## When starting a visualization,<br>you need to ask yourself:
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### What is my message?
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### Who is my audience?
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### How much time do I have? 
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# Tips to spice<br>up your standard<br>charts within<br>specific time<br>constraints
**Ijeamaka Anyene**  
**Toronto Data Workshop | August 6th, 2021**
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## Ijeamaka's Time-Specific Data Viz Maxims
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### Deadline is tomorrow
### Moderate amount of time
### An abundance of time
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## .my-green[Time Available in Workday:] .my-yellow["Deadline is tomorrow"]
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### Advice
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**Start simple then build up**<br>  
**More aesthetics = more complexity**<br>  
**Reduce redundancy, add clarity**<br>
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### Implement
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**Standard charts or go-to charts**<br>  
**Non-default aesthetics (colors, text, etc)**<br>  
**Modify legend and axis**<br>  
**Titles, subtitles, and caption**<br>
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## .my-green[Time Available in Workday:] .my-yellow["A moderate amount"]
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### Advice
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**Emphasize**<br>  
**Less defaults, more customization**<br>  
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### Implement
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**Highlights**<br>  
**Annotations**<br>  
**Atypical legends, labels, etc.**<br> 
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### "Reduce redundancy, add clarity!"

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## .my-green[Time Available in Workday:] .my-yellow["An abundance of time"]

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### Advice
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**Go wild**<br>  
**Have a back up plan**<br>  
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**Nonstandard charts or data art**<br>  
**Custom legends**<br>  
**Multiple annotations**<br>  
**Create a table or standard chart as back up**<br>
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## Let's implement!
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### But first....

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## Let's talk about tables
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### Tables are underrated
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### Great way to show the individual values
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### Easy to make, if data is already wrangled

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### TidyTuesday Dataset: Urban Institute and U.S. Census
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<table class=" lightable-classic-2" style='font-family: "Arial Narrow", "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;'>
<caption>Racial Disparities in Avg. Family Student Loan Debt</caption>
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<th style="empty-cells: hide;" colspan="1"></th>
<th style="padding-bottom:0; padding-left:3px;padding-right:3px;text-align: center; " colspan="2"><div style="border-bottom: 1px solid #111111; margin-bottom: -1px; ">% of families with debt</div></th>
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   <th style="text-align:left;"> Year </th>
   <th style="text-align:right;"> White </th>
   <th style="text-align:right;"> Black </th>
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   <td style="text-align:left;"> 1989 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 10.5 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 17.9 </td>
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   <td style="text-align:left;"> 1992 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 14.3 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 13.8 </td>
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   <td style="text-align:left;"> 1995 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 16.4 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 17.0 </td>
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   <td style="text-align:left;"> 1998 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 15.6 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 14.1 </td>
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   <td style="text-align:left;"> 2001 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 14.7 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 18.5 </td>
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   <td style="text-align:left;"> 2004 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 18.3 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 21.6 </td>
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   <td style="text-align:left;"> 2007 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 19.7 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 28.3 </td>
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   <td style="text-align:left;"> 2010 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 28.0 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 32.1 </td>
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   <td style="text-align:left;"> 2013 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 28.5 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 41.2 </td>
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   <td style="text-align:left;"> 2016 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 33.7 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 41.8 </td>
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### Deadline is tomorrow
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#### Standard charts or go-to charts
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#### Non-default aesthetics (colors, text, etc)
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#### Modify legend and axis
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### Deadline is tomorrow
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#### Standard charts or go-to charts
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#### Modify legend and axis
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### Baseline

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### Deadline is tomorrow
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### Moderate Amount
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### Moderate Amount
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#### Atypical legends, labels, etc.
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### Moderate Amount
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### Deadline is tomorrow
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### Moderate amount
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# Thank you <br>for attending!
**Twitter: @ijeamaka_a**  
**Github: ijeamakaanyene/spice_up_your_charts**
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