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title: Developing Data Visualization Skills for Better Storytelling, Part 2
description: Sue Nicholls of CMKG will teach you how to create data viz for conceptual ideas and non-data outputs. Rather than using bullet points on all of your slides, there’s an opportunity to use diagrams and visual metaphors to illustrate relationships and clarify concepts to reinforce your presentation points.
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# Developing Data Visualization Skills for Better Storytelling, Part 2

**Are your presentations conveying data in an understandable and compelling way?**

 

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In this webinar, Sue Nicholls of CMKG will teach you how to create data viz for conceptual ideas and non-data outputs (the Part 1 webinar focused on data outputs). Rather than using bullet points on all of your slides, there’s an opportunity to use diagrams and visual metaphors to illustrate relationships and clarify concepts to reinforce your presentation points. 

 Related to: [Data Work](https://blog.cmkg.org/essential-retail-cpg-skills-and-topics/topic/data-work), [Instructor-Led Course](https://blog.cmkg.org/essential-retail-cpg-skills-and-topics/topic/instructor-led-course)

## Learning Objectives

##### Describe when to use different types of visuals to illustrate specific things with some examples;

##### Explain what visual metaphors are and how to incorporate them into presentations for more emphasis;

##### List some best practices associated with good visual slides; and

##### Identify some ways to improve slides using visual metaphors and diagrams.

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