Reddit reviews The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics: The Dos and Don'ts of Presenting Data, Facts, and Figures

I can’t recommend highly enough 3 books on good visualizations in business (and everywhere else)

1. Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals buy this, use this
   
   
2. The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics: The Dos and Don'ts of Presenting Data, Facts, and Figures
   
   
3. Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten (the gold-standard usable textbook)
   
   Report format for abstract/methods/etc vs PowerPoint for salespeople varies dramatically from company to company, so I don’t have any good recommendations there. But in the “a picture is worth a thousand words” world, visualizations really matter.

Great guide for building crisp, clear data visuals: https://www.amazon.com/Street-Journal-Guide-Information-Graphics/dp/0393347281

Story telling, try this structure: https://www.richardhare.com/2007/09/03/the-minto-pyramid-principle-scqa/

Nathan Yau, Visualize this

Dona Wong, The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics: The Dos and Don'ts of Presenting Data, Facts, and Figures

This book is really helpful and always handy to keep on your desk.

Agreed. Whenever I or my team decide to use data visualizations for stories, we consult this very cool, industry-standard visual guide from the Wall Street Journal.

What kind of graphics are you adding? At most I'll add in a screenshot of something in the UI if I need to call out a detail, but other than that I try to just rely on descriptive text. I also avoid making graphics that are essentially pictures of text, because those can't be seen by screen readers.

Any "graphic design" is handled by our UX guy and the person over in Marketing who does all the images for the main website. All I ever do is screen captures.

If you're referring to infographics, this seems to be the canonical text: The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics.

>I’m mostly using MadCap Capture

At my job we have the full MadCap suite of tools, including Capture. Within two weeks I went and bought a Snagit license with my own money. Using Capture was like going around your ass to get to your elbow, especially since I'd been using Snagit for close to a decade at that point. So you may also be hitting a limitation of the tool, depending on what kind of problems you're having.

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