This practical guide explores how charts communicate, mislead, and persuade. Learn to spot and avoid deceptive visuals while building powerful data narratives.
This course equips learners with the skills to create clear, honest, and impactful data visualizations. It explores how design choices can shape perception and influence interpretation, offering practical strategies to avoid misrepresentation. Through real-world examples, it empowers learners to build trustworthy and compelling data narratives. This course is ideal for analysts, designers, communicators, and educators who work with data visuals. Basic familiarity with common chart types is helpful. No advanced statistics knowledge is required, but a desire to communicate data more effectively is essential. A hands-on guide to visual communication that merges design principles, statistical honesty, and narrative techniques to help readers create compelling, truthful, and accessible charts. This course is based on Impactful Data Visualization, by Kavitha Ranganathan. Copyright ©2022 by Sage Publications Limited. All rights reserved, including rights for text and data mining and training of artificial technologies or similar technologies. Published by Sage Publications Limited, London. Used by arrangement with Sage Publications Limited.













