From the course: Introduction to Career Skills in Data Analytics

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Gathering requirements for visualizations

Gathering requirements for visualizations

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Gathering requirements for visualizations

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- We have all heard the stories where the entrepreneur designs their life-changing app on a napkin and then moves on to greatness. Well, guess what? You can apply the same approach to your visuals. Maybe it's not a napkin, but I can tell you from my experience, even starting with your customer and a napkin is better than guessing at the visual representation of the data on your own. People never know what they want in a dashboard or report until they can see what you see, and if that's all in your head, well no one is a mind reader. The best way to express your ideas is to create a mockup of the dashboard. Just lay out different objects, like a table, matrix or stack chart, add a few filters on the image, this will help everyone get on the same page about the design. And if it's multiple pages with navigation, then wireframing helps communicate the navigation of information before you build it. Wireframing allows you to…

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