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Data & Statistics: Data Collection, Visualization, & Presentation

This guide lists resources for finding, developing, analyzing and presenting data including, research methodology and data presentation guides, sources of statistical data, statistical software tutorials and much more!

Who collects data?

Often the answer is:

  • Governmental agencies
  • International organizations
  • Professional and Trade organizations
  • Specialized trade publications

Learn Data Story telling on Tableau 2022 in 7 mins

Visualize This explains how to tell a story with data, from the process of data visualization. By Nathan Yau and presented by FlowingData and John Wiley & Sons.

Using Data to Tell a Story. Video Tutorial

Data visualization is present in every aspect of our lives - but is it really as unbiased as it’s said to be? In this SciToons video, learn more about how data visualizations can misrepresent information. From politics to medicine, the stories told by data visualizations can bend the truth through techniques such as cherry picking, axis truncation, and pie charts that add up to over 100%.

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Key terms for finding information on presentation

Use these keywords to search the library catalog, database, and Google:

  • Visual communication
  • Business communication
  • Business presentations - graphic methods
  • Statistics - graphic methods
  • Visual sociology
  • Commercial art
  • Graphic design (typography)
  • Digital communications