Presentation on Data Visualization for Open Data Day 2015, Kathmandu, Nepal. Know about Open Data Day 2015, Kathmandu, Nepal: http://np.okfn.org/2015/02/16/opendataday2015/

1. Data Visualization
By Firoj Ghimire
OKFN Nepal

2. What is?
Pictorial representation of data for meaningful insight.

3. What is?
Pictorial representation of data for meaningful insight.
By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can
explore with your eyes, a sort of information map. And when you’re lost
in information, an information map is kind of useful.
―David McCandless

4. Why?
“The main goal of data visualization is to communicate information clearly
and effectively.”
• Convey information through visual representations
• Find Patterns
• Story Telling
• Inspire

5. Why?
The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.
―Carly Fiorina

6. How?
• Bar Graphs

7. How?
• Pie Charts

8. How?
• Bubble Tree

9. How?
• Data Map Visualization

10. How?
• Infographics

11. Tools
• OpenSpending
• Datawrapper
• Spreadsheet Softwares
• Google Fusion Tables
• Infogr.am
• Libraries(arbor.js,cubism.js,kartograph.py,igraph,prefuse……… etc)
• Programming Languages( Matlab, R, Processing,……. etc)

12. Thank You!