I recently recorded the opening section of my Practical Charts online course as a 70-minute video for workshop participants to watch before live, online workshops begin. I decided to make this recording publicly available, and it can now be watched on YouTube.

I regularly hear or read comments such as, “Scatter plots are the most useful chart type”, “I love bullet graphs”, or “Clustered bars are better than stacked bars.” In this post, I discuss why these kinds of preconceived preferences or inclinations to use one chart type over another don’t really make sense.

Following a successful trial run, the Practical Charts course is now available for private online or in-person workshops. This new course from globally recognized data visualization expert Nick Desbarats equips participants with the knowledge and skills to handle all of the data visualization challenges that they’re likely to face in their work.