Foundations of data viz
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Presented at the Oregon Special Libraries Association workshop: Customizing Data Delivery to Target Audiences. Join ORSLA Members and friends for a half-day workshop on Customizing Data Delivery to Target Audiences. When: Friday, September 27, 1pm 4pm with a no-host happy hour to follow. Architectural Heritage Center (701 SE Grand Avenue, Portland, http://www.visitahc.org/) Youve done your research and have a pile of information. Learn how to turn that information into an impressive research package by profiling your audience (clients, faculty, students, management), assessing their needs and learning styles, and creating meaningful charts and info-graphics guaranteed to impress. Schedule: 1-2pm Reece Dano: Ethnographic Research: Going Beyond WHAT and Getting to WHY 2-3pm Temese Szalai: Delivering Insights, Not Information 3-4pm Jackie Wirz: Fundamentals of Data Visualization: Creating Beautiful, Elegant and Descriptive Visual Displays After 4pm Happy hour at [to be announced]
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Foundations of data viz
- 1. FUNDAMENTALS OF DATA VISUALIZATION Creating Beautiful, Elegant & Descriptive Visual Displays
- 2. Hello there!
- 3. Hello there! What is graphical excellence?
- 4. Hello there! how can I make my data visually Excellent?
- 5. lets talk
- 6. What this talkis not about
- 10. aim here! prettyugly useful crap What this talkis about
- 11. 1 | Substance 2 | Style 3 | Steps 4 | summary
- 12. 0 | foundations
- 15. If information is presented orally, people rememberabout10%...That number goes up by 65% if you add a picture.
- 16. If information is presented orally, people rememberabout10...That number goes up by 65% if you add a picture.
- 19. WhatI am really try to do is bring birth to clarity It's all visual. It's hard to explain. -Feynman
- 20. 867-5309
- 21. 865-5309
- 22. Ethics
- 23. With great power comes great responsibility -Uncle Ben, Spiderman
- 24. Visualization is the abstraction Of data. Data is the abstraction of the real world. Data visualization is an abstraction of an abstraction -Nathan Yau
- 25. 1 | Substance
- 27. how do we describe it. . . meaningfully, clearly, succinctly, properly?
- 33. Data flow
- 37. Data Definitions
- 40. | Ratio Interval Ordinal Nominal
- 41. Ratio Interval Ordinal NominalValues
- 43. so what?
- 46. More, please
- 48. Width Size of Army Line Location Latitude/Longitude Color Movement Location labels, dates, Numbers Temperature
- 49. Thiers Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire S辿gur La Campagne de Russie, M辿moires d'un Aide de Camp de L'Empereur Napol辿on I Fezensac Souvenirs militaires Chambray Histoire de l'expedition de Russie Jacob Revue d'Histoire de la Pharmacie
- 50. 2 | Style
- 51. does this visual make me look fat?
- 52. how do we make it. . . easier to understand, cleaner, safer, smarter, meaningful beautiful?
- 57. |
- 60. *
- 64. Visual Clutter: Do Not Do э 臣 S( - i k
- 66. 3 | Steps
- 67. how do I do this?
- 68. how do we make a. . . descriptive, unique, interesting, engaging data graphic?
- 69. Steps Gather the Data Organize the Data Write a Story/annotate Select a visualization Apply encodings Experiment & Iterate
- 70. Gather the data
- 71. Nathans Hot Dog Eating Contest
- 80. Write a spec
- 81. Did the creation of the InternationalFederation of CompetitiveEating affect NathansHot Dog Eating Competition?
- 82. annotate
- 83. Did the creation of the InternationalFederation of CompetitiveEating affect NathansHot Dog Eating Competition?
- 84. Did the creationof the InternationalFederation of CompetitiveEating affect NathansHot Dog Eating Competition? single event: date
- 85. Did the creation of the InternationalFederation of CompetitiveEating affect NathansHot Dog Eating Competition? established in 1997
- 86. Did the creation of the InternationalFederation of CompetitiveEating affect NathansHot Dog Eating Competition? changed in 2000
- 87. Did the creation of the InternationalFederation of CompetitiveEating affect NathansHot Dog Eating Competition? observe change
- 88. Did the creation of the InternationalFederation of CompetitiveEating affect NathansHot Dog Eating Competition? baseline observations
- 89. Did the creation of the InternationalFederation of CompetitiveEating affect NathansHot Dog Eating Competition? specifically: Number of Hot Dogs & Buns Eaten per year
- 106. Did the creation of the InternationalFederation of CompetitiveEating affect NathansHot Dog Eating Competition?
- 107. Do International Federation of Competitive Eating Affiliates Affect NathansHot Dog Eating Competition?
- 112. 4 | Summary
- 115. 3 | Steps GathertheData OrganizetheData Writea Spec/annotate Selecta visualization Applyencodings Experiment&Iterate
- 116. 1 | Substance 2 | Style 3 | Steps 4 | study
- 117. Hello there! What is graphical excellence?
- 118. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. Albert Einstein
- 119. Hello there! how can I make my Data visually Excellent?
- 120. Just as writers read to sculpt their skill, visualizers look Look around you. You are looking at opportunity. Jessica Hagy
- 122. Thank You
- 123. mail| Wirzj@ohsU.edu
- 125. questions?