How to Avoid LinkedIn’s Data Visualization Mistake

LinkedIn tried to showcase its company’s success using a poorly-crafted line chart in 2004. In this video I breakdown two mistakes to avoid in your data visualizations: don’t put too much text and don’t put too much color.
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Transcript:
One of the biggest problems in charts is doing too much. Here's an example from LinkedIn: too much text and too much color. First, text. Do you need all these 000s or would this be clear? Do you need all these specific dates, or would this suffice? Next, color. Do you need a background that looks like old parchment paper, or would this not be better? And do you need two bold bright colors when this is the most important one? Before... and after. Remember, if you do too much you turn the viewer off. Keeping it simple makes the message clear
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