#MakeoverMonday: Improving How We Visualize and Analyze Data, One Chart at a Time

Explore different perspectives and approaches to create more effective visualizations

#MakeoverMonday offers inspiration and a giant dose of perspective for those who communicate data. Originally a small project in the data visualization community, #MakeoverMonday features a weekly chart or graph and a dataset that community members reimagine in order to make it more effective. The results have been astounding; hundreds of people have contributed thousands of makeovers, perfectly illustrating the highly variable nature of data visualization. Different takes on the same data showed a wide variation of theme, focus, content, and design, with side-by-side comparisons throwing more- and less-effective techniques into sharp relief.

This book is an extension of that project, featuring a variety of makeovers that showcase various approaches to data communication and a focus on the analytical, design and storytelling skills that have been developed through #MakeoverMonday. Paging through the makeovers ignites immediate inspiration for your own work, provides insight into different perspectives, and highlights the techniques that truly make an impact.

• Explore the many approaches to visual data communication
• Think beyond the data and consider audience, stakeholders, and message
• Design your graphs to be intuitive and more communicative

• Assess the impact of layout, color, font, chart type, and other design choices

Creating visual representation of complex datasets is tricky. There’s the mandate to include all relevant data in a clean, readable format that best illustrates what the data is saying—but there is also the designer’s impetus to showcase a command of the complexity and create multidimensional visualizations that “look cool.” #MakeoverMonday shows you the many ways to walk the line between simple reporting and design artistry to create exactly the visualization the situation requires.  

探索不同的觀點和方法，創造更有效的視覺化

#MakeoverMonday為那些傳達數據的人提供靈感和大量的觀點。最初是數據視覺化社區的一個小項目，#MakeoverMonday每週呈現一個圖表或圖形以及一個數據集，社區成員重新想像這些數據以使其更有效。結果令人驚訝，數百人貢獻了成千上萬個改造，完美地展示了數據視覺化的高度可變性。對相同數據的不同解讀展示了主題、焦點、內容和設計的廣泛變化，並通過並排比較將更有效和不那麼有效的技巧清晰地展示出來。

這本書是該項目的延伸，展示了各種改造，展示了數據傳達的不同方法，並聚焦於通過#MakeoverMonday所發展的分析、設計和故事講述技巧。翻閱這些改造立即激發您自己工作的靈感，提供不同觀點的洞察，並突出真正產生影響的技巧。

• 探索視覺數據傳達的多種方法


• 超越數據，考慮受眾、利益相關者和信息


• 設計圖表使其直觀且更具傳達力

• 評估版面、顏色、字體、圖表類型和其他設計選擇的影響

創建複雜數據集的視覺表示是棘手的。有一個要求以清晰易讀的格式包含所有相關數據，以最佳方式展示數據的含義，但設計師也有動機展示對複雜性的掌握，創造多維度的視覺化效果，使其“看起來很酷”。#MakeoverMonday向您展示了在簡單報告和設計藝術之間取得平衡的多種方式，以創建符合情況要求的視覺化效果。