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Visualizing Data9/12/2011Lisa Kurt
Emerging Technologies Librarian
Lisa Kurt “twitterized” by: http://visual.ly/twitter
Who? What skills?• Designer• Computer Scientist• Statistician• Teacher/professor• Mathematician• Business person• Entrepreneur• Artist• Etc…
http://flowingdata.com/2011/08/19/bikes-of-san-francisco/
Let’s look at some fun information!
• Web of Science vs. Google ScholarWeb of Science Google Scholar
07/2008 604 643
08/2008 580 604
09/2008 1083 1109
10/2008 1302 1241
11/2008 638 1297
12/2008 677 886
1. Composition2. Alignment3. Repetition4. Contrast5. Color6. Typography7. Image
choice
basic design elements
Hrishi Mittal
Rafal Dittwald
Original graph: http://flowingdata.com/2010/02/25/challenge-make-this-graph-easier-to-read/
Brendan
Rethinking the food nutrition label…
http://flowingdata.com/2011/08/12/rethinking-the-food-nutrition-label/
http://flowingdata.com/category/visualization/page/2/
We have a need to explain andunderstand our world…
even the humorous sides.
Conventions can work with us.
Can you spot conventions used inthis infographic?
http://lemon.ly/slider/the-united-states-use-of-food-stamps
Great Breakdown on Tools and Techniques:
http://www.visualisingdata.com/index.php/resources/
http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com
Many Eyes
http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/
Google Visualization API
Want to be like Hans Rosling?!?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w
http://code.google.com/apis/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/motionchart.html
Now you can!
Hmm… neat but that looks a little too fancy for me…
Not everything that looks hard,
is as hard as it looks!
• Edward Tufte: http://www.edwardtufte.com • NYTimes Visualization Lab: http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/27/the-new-york-times-data-
visualization-lab/
• Visually: http://visual.ly/• Flowing Data: http://flowingdata.com/• Lemonly: http://lemon.ly/• Gapminder: http://www.gapminder.org/
Additional resources available:
Your turn!
• Design a single infographic that demonstrates information/data gathered from the candy.
• Sketch on paper or online. Or both!• Consider the color, composition, contrast,
typography, alignment, and repetition when designing your visualization.
• Work with a partner- no more than 3 in a group. • Presentation and discussion.