Project Walkthrough

Mentor walks through the steps, decision points, and iterations they took with a past project. Mentees are encouraged to ask questions, which could include specifics about a technique or broad steps about project concepts or working with clients.

Walkthrough may include steps such as:

1. How the research question was developed

2. How the data was acquired or created

3. How data was cleaned

4. How the chart type was chosen

5. How the data visualization tool was chosen

6. How data was prepared

7. What steps were taken to create the chart or charts

8. What the feedback and revision process looked like

9. How it was determined that the project was complete

10. What lessons learned can be applied to future projects

Project Process Walkthrough Examples and Inspiration*

• A Design Process for Dataviz by Jenn Schilling

• Fixing My Design Process from the Inside Out by Silvia Romanelli

• How to Run a Data Visualization Project walks through the CRISP-DM model for data visualization. 

• The Seven Stages of Visualizing Data by Ben Fry

• In Chart Chat 24, the Data Revelations hosts have a discussion with John Burn-Murdoch, Chief Data Reporter at The Financial Times. John takes us behind the scenes in the creation and evolution of some of the most influential charts of the pandemic.

• In Chart Chat 25, the hosts have a discussion with James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti who share how they developed some of the striking illustrations for Atlas of the Invisible.  

• Creating The Dashboard That Got Me A Data Analyst Job Offer by Zach Quinn

• Data Visualization: A Guide for Creating Great Vissualizations[sic] University of Maryland.

• In Planning and Designing Effective Data Visualizations Noah Iliinsky presented a 3 hour workshop on designing data visualizations to the European Bioinformatics Institute.  

*Linked resources are provided as examples and are not exhaustive of everything the data visualization community has to offer. Please feel free to explore other resources and share what you find with mentorship@datavisualizationsociety.org so we can keep this page updated.