charts and their types

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Charts and Their Types

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Data visualization is very important in making communication by understood to the target audience. The aim of data visualization is to make the information easier to understand through relating the concepts learned.Data visualization may involve charts or certain patterns that tend to be designed in a manner which can create interest in the target group (Archambau et al.,2015). With much technology, visualization has been achieved by the use of infographics that are recently used in mass communication because of their simplicity in conveying complex information and also have been useful in raising awareness on particular issues. Example of infographics in the visualization of is charts infographics.

Charts infographic conveys particular information with the use of charts as the center of the information. To enable the information is understood to the target group, the chart infographic uses several charts such as bar charts, pie charts, line charts among others that aid in making the information presentable (Zwinger & Zeiller,2016). The suitability of chart infographics is achieved through the use of various colors and shape that are objective to emphasize particular information. The use of colors as an emphasis on particular information is important because it makes the information easier to understand. The chart infographics make use of different colors and shape to the group and particular information that are related in their presentations.

Visualization of data is influenced by a number of factors that measure the effectiveness of the method used in presenting the information. To begin with is the speed that refers to the time that the targeted audience will take to understand particular information because the interpretation is based on one's cognitive ability (Saleh et al., 2015). This factor could be addressed through the use of simpler presentations that will not challenge the audience or lead to misinterpretation. Additionally visualization can be made effective by ensuring the presented information is memorable. The memorably of the information can be achieved through use of different colors and shapes to convey a particular information.

Chart infographics use data values to show the degree of the information presented in different charts such as bar charts. Additionally,it incorporates the use of a table with a given set of data to indicate trends leading to a particular presentation (Skau & Kosara, 2016). Data values and tables are very important in chart infographics because the values provide a basis to the audience to connect particular information by comparing the trends in the values. Additionally data values and tables they act as the highlights to particular information and encourage attention to the presentation even if the information is complex.

To conclude, data visualizations has been made more effective ny the use of info graphics that help simplify the information for easy understanding. For instance, charts infographics are widely used to present information since they use charts as there central area to focus in interpretation of information. Chart infographics enhance easy interpretation and understanding of information especially when they include tables and data values in their presentation.

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Archambault, S. G., Helouvry, J., Strohl, B., & Williams, G. (2015). Data visualization as a communication tool. Library Hi Tech News, 32(2), 1-9.

Saleh, B., Dontcheva, M., Hertzmann, A., & Liu, Z. (2015, June). Learning style similarity for searching infographics. In Proceedings of the 41st graphics interface conference (pp. 59-64). Canadian Information Processing Society.

Skau, D., & Kosara, R. (2016, June). Arcs, angles, or areas: Individual data encodings in pie and donut charts. In Computer Graphics Forum (Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 121-130).

Zwinger, S., & Zeiller, M. (2016, November). Interactive infographics in German online newspapers. In Forum Media Technology. St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Institute of CreativenMedia/Technologies.