OU Stats Conference - Quick Ways In to DataViz

Visualisations for the Rest of Us - How to Create Rich Interactive Visualisations Without Any of the Pain
Tony Hirst
Communication and Systems,
The Open University

Storytelling
Snsemaking

( Data Driven Journalism )

“Personal dashboards”

BIG DATA

Taking aMACROSCOPICview

Visual AnalysisorPresentation Graphics?

Data
VisualAnalysis

Data
(Visual)Analysis
PresentationGraphics

Data
Interactive
Visualisation

For the creator
Spreadsheet chartsVisualisation applicationsOff-the-shelf visualisation componentsBespoke programmed visualisations

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 EffectiveVisualisation Environment

So let’s start at the beginning……with the DATA

GetTheData.org

Manipulating Data
Spreadsheet
Text editor
Database/query language
Maths/stats tool
Programming language
(Data cleansing tool)

Stanford Data Wrangler
GoogleRefine

In the right format, or in the right environment, a “dataset as document” can become a queryable database

http://bit.ly/dFCKxM

Fishing for ideas and keeping up…

http://www.improving-visualisation.org/

http://flowingdata.com/
http://infosthetics.com/

IBM’sMany Eyes

Tableau

Google Public Data Explorer

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

http://bit.ly/iMZF75
Using R for creating visualisations

R-Studio

Data Journalism Developer Studio
Data Science Toolkit

(Probably no time for)QUESTIONS…?
http://blog.ouseful.info
@psychemedia

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OU Stats Conference - Quick Ways In to DataViz

by Tony Hirst on May 18, 2011

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