From the course: Data Visualization for Data Analysis and Analytics
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Focus using the KWYs
From the course: Data Visualization for Data Analysis and Analytics
Focus using the KWYs
- [Instructor] So you want to communicate your data to an audience. Where to begin? Well, you begin at the beginning. You begin with focus. I've created a family of acronyms that are absolutely terrible. I have to warn you. But they have a shorthand that's not bad, the KWYs, which rhymes with why, which is what you constantly need to be asking, along with other questions, to really bring focus to your work. Okay, here is the first terrible acronym. It's pronounced KWYRWTS. (chuckles) Terrible, right? Well, bad acronym or not, KWYRWTS stands for know what you really want to say. And this is one of the most important ideas in this entire course. It may seem like an obvious idea. You need to know what you want to say to communicate, duh. But really, this is absolutely critical. Most of the time, we think we know what we want to say. But we don't take a step back and think deeply about it. For instance, asking…
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