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Sci /Tech & Eng 201: Data Visualization. SLA Annual Conference, Boston, MA. Mary Frances Lembo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Barbara Wetzel , Pacific Northwest National Laboratory James Manasco, University of Louisville. June 15, 2015. Data Visualization: Outline.
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Sci/Tech & Eng 201:Data Visualization SLA Annual Conference, Boston, MA Mary Frances Lembo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Barbara Wetzel, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory James Manasco, University of Louisville June 15, 2015
Data Visualization: Outline • What is Data Visualization? • Definition • Examples • Sample Visualizations • Topic-Based Visualization • Geographical Visualization • Temporal Visualizations • Visualization Products
Visualization: Norwood Viviano New York Newark Los Angeles Philadelphia
Additional Visualization Products • Chart and image gallery: 30+ free tools for data visualization and analysis. ComputerWorld http://www.computerworld.com/article/2506820/business-intelligence-chart-and-image-gallery-30-free-tools-for-data-visualization-and-analysis.html • The 14 best data visualization tools. The Next Web http://thenextweb.com/dd/2015/04/21/the-14-best-data-visualization-tools/
Resources Used • Cities: Departure and Deviation: Norwood Vivianohttp://www.norwoodviviano.com/work/cities-departure-and-deviation/ • The installation Cities: Departure and Deviation is comprised of 24 blown-glass forms based on three-dimensional rotations of statistical data for major urban centers in the United States • Engineering Village 2: Elsevier http://www.engineeringvillage.com/ • Engineering Village is the place to find answers to engineering questions, from theoretical to applied, from basic to complex. Via a single interface, researchers and engineers can access today's most authoritative content and take advantage of intelligent tools and enhanced features to help make sense of what they find and how to apply it to their work. • IN-SPIRE: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory http://in-spire.pnnl.gov/ • IN-SPIRE™, powerful information visualization software developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, can give people the ability to see something different in the data they already have.
Resources Used • Sci2: Indiana University https://sci2.cns.iu.edu/user/index.php • The Science of Science (Sci2) Tool is a modular toolset specifically designed for the study of science. It supports the temporal, geospatial, topical, and network analysis and visualization of scholarly datasets at the micro (individual), meso (local), and macro (global) levels. • Tableau Public: https://public.tableau.com/s/ • Tableau Public is free software that can allow anyone to connect to a spreadsheet or file and create interactive data visualizations for the web. • Tagxedo: Hardy Leung http://www.tagxedo.com/ • Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text. • US Census Infographics http://www.census.gov/library/infographics.html • An infographic uses a set of tables, graphs and maps to display statistical findings in easy-to-understand manner, part of the Census Bureau's commitment to clarity in communicating with the public.
Continue the conversation … • Sci/Tech 101 Blog: http://sla-divisions.typepad.com/scitech_101/. Mary Frances Lembo Research Librarian - Senior PNNL Technical Library Pacific Northwest National Lab mf.lembo@pnnl.gov Barbara Wetzel Research Librarian PNNL Technical Library orcid.org/0000-0002-8346-0824 Pacific Northwest National Lab barbara.wetzel@pnnl.gov James E. Manasco Engineering & Physical Sciences Librarian University of Louisville james.manasco@louisville.edu