—Stefanie Posavec, Designer, Artist, and Co-Author of Dear Data
Do you want to visually communicate data in new, impactful, and creative ways? Do you want to be valued for the way you think, not how well you use software tools? When you see someone else’s creative work, are you overwhelmed by how such an idea even began?
—Andy Kirk, Independent Data Visualisation Expert
See creativity in a new way. Care for your innate creativity. Use prompts to coax it out when you need it. Generate new ways to communicate your creative ideas.
Introduction: What is creativity and why should you care? Section I: CARE Chapter 1: Expand your mental boundaries with the 'Bad Gifts' prompt Chapter 2: Cultivate your inspiration with the 'X-RAY' prompt Chapter 3: Build your habits with the 'Recess List' prompt
Section II: COAX Chapter 4: Blast through project paralysis with the 'Idea Isosceles' prompt Chapter 5: Immediately see through a new lens with the 'Break-the-Box' prompt Chapter 6: Find stories like an editor with the 'CTR' prompt
Section III: COMMUNICATE Chapter 7: Find an appropriate balance with the '4Q' prompt Chapter 8: Explain it with a visual metaphor with the 'Haystack' prompt Chapter 9: Mix different mediums and experiences with the 'Tango' prompt
Conclusion: What should you do next?
Featured magazine spread in the Royal Statistical Society’s Significance Magazine Data Visualization Society’s Nightingale Journal book review: “Taken as a cohesive work, Chart Spark is a practical guide to increasing and maintaining creative output with accessible and actionable prompts at the conclusion of every section.” Interview on The Plot by Evelina Judeikyte about creativity and the writing process for Chart Spark The Datawrapper Book Club reads Chart Spark! Voilà Book Review: “Alli also includes something I personally haven’t seen before, a recommended breakdown of how you should go through the book with ‘expected reading time’ included. This helped me set my reading goals while going through this book.” Make 2024 Your Most Creative Year Yet: Dataviz DC recorded talk on YouTube Audit Your Inspiration: Information is Beautiful Awards featured workshop recording on YouTube Questions in Dataviz book review: “It’s not a large or overwhelming book, to the extent that I sat down and read it in one long session, but it leaves you knowing that it is full of tips to dive back into whenever you need to look for or remember advice on getting started or presenting your creative dataviz.” Xcalibur book review: “Journeying through Chart Spark, I developed a new found knowledge of where creativity comes from, how to seek it from deep within myself, and that creativity itself can be small but powerful.”
Little Miss Data book review: “In classic Alli fashion, she not only makes the idea of creativity approachable, she shares easy creativity exercises with a data lens to help you work through your discovery journey.”
—Steve Wexler, Co-Author of The Big Book of Dashboards
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