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Visualisations for the Rest of Us - How to
Create Rich Interactive Visualisations Without
Any of the PainTony Hirst
Communication and Systems,The Open University
StorytellingS nsemaking
( Data Driven Journalism )
“Personal dashboards”
BIG DATA
Taking aMACROSCOPIC
view
Visual Analysisor
Presentation Graphics?
Data
VisualAnalysis
Data
(Visual)Analysis
PresentationGraphics
Data
(Visual)Analysis
PresentationGraphics
Data
InteractiveVisualisation
Spreadsheet charts
Visualisation applications
Off-the-shelf visualisation components
Bespoke programmed visualisations
For the creator
Data Shapes
“Shape Sorter”, by Ella’s Dad
Data representation is key…
“Key”, by dewitt
What makes for a good visualisation tool?
ComparingSortingAdding variablesFilteringHighlightingAggregatingRe-expressingRe-visualisingZooming and PanningRe-scaling
Key Properties of an Effective
Visualisation Environment
So let’s start at the beginning…
…with the DATA
GetTheData.org
Manipulating DataSpreadsheetText editorDatabase/query languageMaths/stats toolProgramming language
(Data cleansing tool)
GoogleRefine
Stanford Data Wrangler
In the right format, or in the right environment, a “dataset as document” can become a
queryable database
http://bit.l
y/dFCKxM
Fishing for ideas and keeping up…
http://www.improving-visualisation.org/
http://infosthetics.com/
http://flowingdata.com/
IBM’sMany Eyes
Tableau
Google Public
Data Explorer
Gephi
Link reception (2 receipts)
Using colour for a reason
So how many dimensions does support?
• X and Y (at a push, Z)• Node size and colour• (Node label size and colour)• Edge thickness and colour• (Edge label and colour)• Node proximity/grouping• Clustering
• Filtering and differential application of the above
Progressive Enhancement
Data filtering
Programmed visualisations
Protovis
Hand-coded visualisations:
Protovis
Processing
Using R for creating visualisations
http://bit.ly/iMZF75
R-Studio
Data Journalism Developer
Studio
Data Science Toolkit
(Probably no time for)
QUESTIONS…?
http://blog.ouseful.in
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@psychemedia
