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Beyond these options, clearly a further avenue is through formal training and these
days this comes in all shapes and sizes—from online tutorials, video tutorials, and
webinars, through to in-person training courses and undergraduate or postgraduate
programs. Scour the Internet to find the right solution for you.
Whichever way you go about developing your skills and knowledge, you can be sure
there will be plenty of support from across the field. Data visualization is blessed
with a wonderful positive and supportive community of incredibly talented and
humble people, so you will always be met with a warm welcome.
Summary
We have now come to the end of this design journey. Hopefully, you got to your
destination smoothly and you didn't experience many frights along the way!
In this chapter, we have focused on the execution stage of the visualization design
process, bringing form to all your preparatory efforts, and transforming your concept
into a produced work. We have introduced some of the most useful technologies to
give you a flavor of the variety of tools being used for the different stages or types of
visualization design.
We have looked at some of the important final steps to take before launching your
design, the importance of running final checks across all elements, and conducting
testing to get an evaluation of your solution before launch.
Once launched, it is then your prerogative to seek evidence of the impact of your
work and we outlined a number of different tactics for undertaking this.
Finally, we suggested some strategies for you to consider pursuing to continue to
develop your data visualization skills, knowledge, and experience. This will give
you the best chance of taking your capabilities forward and achieving success in this
thoroughly exciting field.
Good luck to all of you with the visualization challenges you take on in the future
and thank you so much for taking the time to read this topic. I hope it helps in any
way possible!
