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Data Visualisationinspired by Toby Segaran ~ Webstock By Olivier Lorrain April 8, 2010 www.olivierlorrain.com
Data Visualisation “The main goal of data visualization is its ability to visualize data, communicating information clearly and effectivelty.”  Vital Friedman, editor-in-chief of www.smashingmagazine.com
To Make a Point Impact of One child policy 1979 Source: www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/informationGateway.php
To Form a Hypothesis China’s Population: 1 330 000 000 Which country will be the most populous in 2030? India’s Population: 1 173 000 000 Source: www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/informationGateway.php
To Help Achieve a Goal  Task in a Power plant: Monitor Temperature of Liquid B Temperature (C) Temperature (C) 56.2 Digital Dial
To Help Achieve a Goal  Task in a Power plant: Monitor Temperature of Liquid B Temperature (C) Threshold Threshold Time (min)
7 Gender balance ,[object Object]
 21% of the lines are womenCluster ,[object Object],Toby Segaran - Corporate map: http://dev.mqlx.com/~toby/corporate_map.png
8 Gender balance ,[object Object]
 21% of the lines are womenCluster ,[object Object],discover patterns Toby Segaran - Corporate map: http://dev.mqlx.com/~toby/corporate_map.png
Dull Table or Animated Data 3800 US stores in 2005 Growth of WalMart blog.kiwitobes.com/?p=51
3D Pie Chart
Pie Chart
3D Pie Chart 7 20 38 15 20 Visual bias – Avoid 3D graphs
Bar Chart
Large Network More about beauty then useful Source: www.solidsourceit.com/products/SolidSX-source-code-dependency-analysis.html
Helps track expensesvssavings  Source: www.bnz.co.nz
Helps uncover patterns Source: www.bnz.co.nz
Data visualisation could be a powerful communication tool Always bear in mind the users / audience of the data visualisation Key Points
Toby Segaran - http://kiwitobes.com Gap Minder – Debunking myths about the “third world” www.gapminder.org/videos/ted-talks/hans-rosling-ted-2006-debunking-myths-about-the-third-world/ Data Visualisation tools www.yworks.com/en/products.html www.graphviz.org/ Edward Tufte – Visual Explanationswww.edwardtufte.com/tufte Further Reading

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Data Visualisation by Olivier Lorrain

  • 1. Data Visualisationinspired by Toby Segaran ~ Webstock By Olivier Lorrain April 8, 2010 www.olivierlorrain.com
  • 2. Data Visualisation “The main goal of data visualization is its ability to visualize data, communicating information clearly and effectivelty.” Vital Friedman, editor-in-chief of www.smashingmagazine.com
  • 3. To Make a Point Impact of One child policy 1979 Source: www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/informationGateway.php
  • 4. To Form a Hypothesis China’s Population: 1 330 000 000 Which country will be the most populous in 2030? India’s Population: 1 173 000 000 Source: www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/informationGateway.php
  • 5. To Help Achieve a Goal Task in a Power plant: Monitor Temperature of Liquid B Temperature (C) Temperature (C) 56.2 Digital Dial
  • 6. To Help Achieve a Goal Task in a Power plant: Monitor Temperature of Liquid B Temperature (C) Threshold Threshold Time (min)
  • 7.
  • 8.
  • 9.
  • 10.
  • 11. Dull Table or Animated Data 3800 US stores in 2005 Growth of WalMart blog.kiwitobes.com/?p=51
  • 14. 3D Pie Chart 7 20 38 15 20 Visual bias – Avoid 3D graphs
  • 16. Large Network More about beauty then useful Source: www.solidsourceit.com/products/SolidSX-source-code-dependency-analysis.html
  • 17. Helps track expensesvssavings Source: www.bnz.co.nz
  • 18. Helps uncover patterns Source: www.bnz.co.nz
  • 19. Data visualisation could be a powerful communication tool Always bear in mind the users / audience of the data visualisation Key Points
  • 20. Toby Segaran - http://kiwitobes.com Gap Minder – Debunking myths about the “third world” www.gapminder.org/videos/ted-talks/hans-rosling-ted-2006-debunking-myths-about-the-third-world/ Data Visualisation tools www.yworks.com/en/products.html www.graphviz.org/ Edward Tufte – Visual Explanationswww.edwardtufte.com/tufte Further Reading
  • 21. Free data Freebase – www.freebase.com OECD - http://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx Statistic NZ - http://search.stats.govt.nz/nav/0 Demographic David Foot, Boom, Bust and Echo - http://www.footwork.com/book.asp Further Reading