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A Bite-Sized Guide to Visualising Data: a Dstl biscuit book

A guide to some different ways of visualising data and their respective strengths and weaknesses.

• From: Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
• Published: 10 November 2022

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A Bite-Sized Guide to Visualising Data

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A Bite-Sized Guide to Visualising Data

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This guide has been written by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) for people who need to understand and produce visualisations of data.

By itself data is pretty boring and can be difficult to interpret quickly. Telling stories or having conversations about the data can help, but adding images or visualisations is even better.

Data is critical to Dstl: how we collect, manage, use and hold data are areas where we continually strive to improve. Data is also critical to the nation as a whole, and Dstl is helping raise awareness of its importance and the need to treat it as a national asset. Find out more about Dstl’s work.

‘A Bite-Sized Guide to Visualising Data’ is just one of a series of biscuit books, designed to be dipped into and easily digested - just like a biscuit with tea.

Published 10 November 2022