In’t Maps Brilliant: Understanding Data Through Visualisation

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    1. In’t Maps Brilliant: Understanding Data Through Visualisation Dr Daniel Vickers Lecturer in Social and Spatial Inequalities Department of Geography University of Sheffield OACUG Seminar, Royal Statistical Society, London, 15 th September 2009
    2. Contents
      • Thinking of Numbers in a Different Way
      • Bringing Numbers to Life
      • Adding Place to Data
      • Taking the Place out Again
    3. Thinking of Numbers in a Different Way
      • Numbers without context ≈0
      • Relative positions can be more important than values
      • Relative positions without values ≈0
      • Identifying the BIG numbers
    4. OAC Recap
      • Puts all 223,060 UK Census OAs into groups based on social characteristics
      • Hierarchy of 7, 21 and 52 groups
      • 1: Blue Collar Communities,
      • 2: City Living,
      • 3: Countryside,
      • 4: Prospering Suburbs,
      • 5: Constrained by Circumstances,
      • 6: Typical Traits,
      • 7: Multicultural.
    5. Using statistics to understand a complex world
      • Understanding = Knowledge
      Another 223,030 rows here
    6. Bringing Numbers to Life I Live in a Prospering Suburb I have not got a clue what that means
    7. 1: Blue Collar Communities
    8. 2: City Living
    9. 3: Countryside
    10. 4: Prospering Suburbs Oh, I see
    11. 5: Constrained by Circumstances
    12. 6: Typical Traits
    13. 7: Multicultural
    14.  
    15. That looks like our street! Yes, but these don’t
    16. Yes, and using, different things to visualise them helps us understand So we can use numbers to understand our neighbourhoods And maps can add to our understanding even more!
    17. Adding Place to Data
    18. Adding Place to Data The Dog was right!
    19. 12% of the people What a lot of Green 90% of the area
    20. Taking the Place out Again….but increasing our understanding 12% of the people = 12% of the area
    21.  
    22. Making Maps Brilliant
      • data + context + visualisation = Brilliant!
      • areaclassification.org.uk
      • [email_address]
      • shef.ac.uk/sasi
      Ahh! A talking Dog
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