Practice creating visualizations to summarize many things at once, relationships between things in one place, or exceedingly complex ideas in one place. Recognize that visuals can be more efficient or compelling than other forms of communication.

Create data visualizations to directly support the analysis steps of data.

Identify conventional components and best practices of data visualization from a user-centered or audience perspective.

Comfortably read graphs with accuracy and make sense of data visualizations by answering questions about how the data is represented with precision.

Identify how layout (ordering, scale, and axes) choices increase clarity or potentially mislead an audience.

Align the type of data (numeric, categorical, string, other) to a visualization type designed for that use-case.