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Visualizing DataSeminar Four: Professor Donna Gitter
Amanda [email protected] Technology Fellow, Macaulay Honors College at Baruch
What is Data?
Numbers
Dates
Statistics Demographics
Age Gender Ethnicity
What is Data?
Information from Interviews Names Dates Survey Questions & Answers
Photos from your Neighborhood Location, address Buildings
Collecting Data: Primary Source
Your ResearchNeighborhood ObservationsCommunity Board MeetingNotes: questions and answer Interviews
Collecting Data: Secondary Sources
Other’s ResearchPublished StudiesArticlesDemographics: Census Data, etc.
City Data Infoshare NYC Open Accessible Space Information System NYC Neighborhood Statistics
Visualizing Data
What does it mean to ‘visualize’ data?
Why bother ‘visualizing’ data?
Visualizing Data
Charts & Tables
Graphs
Flow Charts
King’s County*
916,856 households are occupied and 83,437 are vacant
*Source: ITF Emily Sherwood
King’s County*
916,856 households are occupied and 83,437 are vacant
*Source: ITF Emily Sherwood
King’s County*
916,856 households are occupied and 83,437 are vacant
*Source: ITF Emily Sherwood
Visualizing Data
Maps
Timelines
Infographics
Maps*
*Source: http://www.google.com/earth/outreach/tutorials/custommaps.html
Maps*
*Source: http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/de2012/2012/03/29/economic-and-educational-effects-of-hispanic-immigration-in-queens/
Timeline*
*Source: http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/jacksonsights/history/timeline/
Infographics*
*Source: http://ivancash.com/Infographic-of-Infographics
Visualizing Data: Tools
ExcelCharts, Graphs, Tables, Flow Charts
DipityInteractive Timelines
Visualizing Data: Tools
Google Custom MapsInteractive Maps
Social ExplorerDemographic Maps
Visualizing Data: Tools
Infographics
http://www.easel.ly/http://infogr.am/http://visual.ly/http://piktochart.com/
Visualizing Data: Tools
Which tools should you use to visualize your data?
Thank you!