Storytelling with Data: Making the Most of Your Visualizations

WORKSHOP OVERVIEW

Spice up your visual storytelling in your reporting and presentations! Join an instructional designer and an analyst as they share how to choose appropriate charts depending on context. Discover new tools that will make your graphics shine on the page or screen.

Bring a working knowledge of Excel or Google Sheets, as well as a desire to collaborate, to this highly interactive session. Once design principles are explored, breakout groups will create their own visuals from across a variety of disciplines, reflecting the diversity of our H-PEA members. You will walk away with a new network of data viz colleagues, a resource list to help you apply what you learned, and the confidence that you are democratizing information for your stakeholders.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

1. Understand the context of the data visualization (e.g. audience, format)
2. Apply different elements to graphics in order to create more effective designs
3. Explain different types of data and the implications for visual data encoding

ABOUT THE PRESENERS

Youxin Zhang serves as an instructional designer at UH Kapiʻolani Community College. She has an educational background in Learning Design and Technology and extensive experience working closely with higher education faculty, staff, and various content experts including but not limited to visual design, data processing and analysis, professional development planning and training, and instructional design.

Kara Plamann Wagoner transforms numbers and anecdotes into data stories as an institutional/policy analyst at UH Kapiʻolani Community College. She has witnessed the power of design to democratize information in many forms, including grant evaluation, high-stakes presentations, survey analysis, and everyday institutional reporting.

This workshop will be offered virtually through ZOOM. A ZOOM link will be sent with a reminder email prior to the event. 

For more information, contact Kara Plamann Wagoner at karapw@hawaii.edu