Choosing the best visualization for your data is imperative in making effective presentations and infographics. The wrong selection can cause your audience to misinterpret your visualization. Not only is it important to make sure that you choose the best visualization you want to make sure that you avoid your graphs and charts becoming too cluttered. This clutter is often referred to as noise. This noise often is "louder" and takes away from the actual data you are trying to display. You also don't want to go to far simplistic because this can also make it difficult to read. The key is to find the happy medium between clutter and simplicity.

During the creation of your visalitazations you also want to make sure you consider accessibility. Not only do you have to worry about colors and fonts, but additional accessibility needs must be met. For example if you created a bar graph or a line chart and you remove the y axis lines and numbers it is going to be very difficult for anyone to read. When making a table removing the borders of the cells makes it near on impossible for many people with vision or reading deficiencies to read because the information in the columns and rows can jump around. It's important to leave these borders so the information stays in their proper cell.

The presentation below provides information on the different types of visualizations and what things to avoid.