Watch the video for examples to pick different visualizations on dashboards. It depends on amount of data you are going to show too. 

This post will list websites that will be useful to track as you gain more understanding of trends in Data Analytics

Data Literacy (Recommend for Everyone)

Understand how to present information in easy to understand Infographics by looking at samples on these sites. Subscribe to receive daily notification from these sites so that you can see variety of visualizations related to recent trends.

Visual Capitalist

Statista

Data visualization techniques vary a lot based on types of target users who will be consuming data. 

Join this "Storytelling with Data" community and practice your skills in improving your ability to use data to tell stories. This community is setup on following principles

• Practice in a safe environment
• Take regular challenges and exercises
• Get Feedback from others

SWD Community

PowerBI from Microsoft provides Visualization features to convert data to action. 

PowerBI Training Links

Qlik Sense can be used to use create Visualizations (Charts and Dashboards). Please use this link to free videos to learn how to connect to data and build charts/dashboards

Qlik Sense Training

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Data visualization comes in so many varieties that it is sometimes hard to pick the right way to present information to stakeholders. As a technologist it is very easy to assume stakeholders require a very sophisticated visualization and build lot of features into one dashboard.

This also happens because visualization tools made it very easy to provide lot of interactivity. At the same time, each interactivity enables a "feature" in dashboard and supports more use cases. This can result in feature bloat and confuse users more than necessary.

Building a static visualization will meet requirements of not very savvy stakeholders and give them the insight they need.

We have learned some tips and tricks by watching how Statista uses data visualization for data journalism. This can be applied in business context also to increase awareness and align business stakeholders of state of business.

We will cover some sample data analysis use cases with examples on this site in coming weeks to demonstrate variety of examples to illustrate how visualization can be tailored to address different needs.