PURDUE UNIVERISTY

Throughout your academic and professional careers, there will be situations where efficiently navigating and understanding visual information, such as charts and graphs, will be just as important as navigating and understanding textual information. Creating visual information will also be critical to your professional success. SHARC: A Beginner's Framework and Guide for Designing Data Graphs and Charts offers 3 simple steps for understanding and applying introductory data graph and chart design concepts. We understand that what we offer is introductory and encourage you to dig deeper into the Reference & Resources section (and beyond) in order to experiment with design from a place of informed decision making.