From the course: Data Storytelling Basics

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Tips for consuming data visualizations

Tips for consuming data visualizations

From the course: Data Storytelling Basics

Tips for consuming data visualizations

- Well that, okay. So is there a way that a person that is not creating a database maybe but somebody that's just consuming one, whether that's in your company or wherever you are watching the news or social media or wherever you get information from, is there something that us as data is consumers can do when we look at this and go, hm? - Ask questions. And I think oftentimes when people are looking at data and particularly if they don't consider themselves data people, they have questions, but they don't ask them for the fear of maybe sounding stupid or I should know the answer to that, but no, if you've got that question, it means other people have that question as well. And it might actually be some fundamentals flaw in what you're looking at. So don't shy away from asking questions. And when you are in a scenario where you can ask questions to the person who made the graph, don't shy away from that either…

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