Brief Intro to Data Visualisation

1. A Brief Introduction to Data Visualisation Data Visualisation Melbourne

2. to communicate data to people graphically and in a meaningful way. The main goal of data visualisation is to clearly convey information and to make complex data accessible. def:

3. Science Art Data Visualisation is interdisciplinary Graphic Design Information Design Journalism Data Science Computer Science Statistics Creative Coding Cartography

4. Big Data People?????Data Visualisation

5. Data

6. www.accurat.it/ Data vis = Art

7. http://guns.periscopic.com/ Data vis = Storytelling

8. hint.fm/wind/ Data vis = Spacial

9. Data vis = Product Gephi Fitbit NASA

10. Florence Nightingale

11. Edward Tufte Data Integrity: do not distort what the data has to say Data:ink ratio: visual elements convey as much data as possible Avoid chartjunk: non-informative elements that distract from the data Substance over methodology or production SparklinesSmall Multiples

12. Hand-crafted Generated Tools Tableau Highcharts Many Eyes Excel R Gephi (network) CartoDB (mapping) TileMill (mapping) D3 (web) Processing Nodebox Raphael Illustrator Pen & Paper

13. http://www.dear-data.com/

14. www.ri.id.au/closethegap

Brief Intro to Data Visualisation

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