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Data Visualisation

Data Visualisation. Contents Page. Inspiring Impact. Data visualisation: The basics. Inspiring Impact. Data visualisation isn’t new!. Inspiring Impact. Bar charts. In 1858, Florence Nightingale used bar charts. in her report on the health of British soldiers. Inspiring Impact.

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Data Visualisation

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  1. Data Visualisation

  2. Contents Page

  3. Inspiring Impact Data visualisation: The basics

  4. Inspiring Impact Data visualisation isn’t new!

  5. Inspiring Impact Bar charts • In 1858, Florence Nightingale used bar charts. in her report on the health of British soldiers

  6. Inspiring Impact Pie charts In 1801, William Playfair offered a statistical representation of the USA, according the area of different states.

  7. Inspiring Impact Maps Charles Booth used maps to show how poverty was distributed in Victorian London. In 1854 John Snow’s mapping of cholera cases helped him to identify the source of the outbreak.

  8. Inspiring Impact The best way to present your data depends on what you are trying to show

  9. Inspiring Impact

  10. Inspiring Impact Don’t know your scatter graph from your waffle chart? Try Ann K. Emery for a beautifully simple review of these and much more besides. Not sure which option is best for you? Try thisto help you choose. Find out more

  11. Inspiring Impact Doing data visualisation

  12. Inspiring Impact 5 steps to data visualisation • Work out what you want to achieve and how your visualisation will be shared • Consider your audience • Prepare your data • Choose your visualisation: what’s the best option for the data you’ve got and the message you are trying to get across? • Make it! Get expert help if you need to

  13. Inspiring Impact Design • Keep it simple • Avoid 3D • Use colour to help show comparisons • Put things in a logical order • Remove unnecessary grid lines • Have clear titles and labels This advice draws on NPC’s guide to data visualisation

  14. Inspiring Impact Software Icons: if all you need is images to break up the text, the Noun Project has a wide range of free icons to download and use. Infographics:try Icon Array and Piktochart. Canvacan also help bring different types of data together into one graphic. Maps: give Carto a shot. It’s user friendly and supplies great visuals. Datawrapper, amChartsand Highcharts are also that can help you create a range of infographics, charts and maps. Virtual maps:Netlytic specialises in visual analysis of social media and Mindomo can translate information into mind maps.

  15. Inspiring Impact More software Words:Taqxedo, Wordclouds, Wordle and Word tree are all tools to analyse and show the frequent words in a body of text. Dashboards: If you want to create visualisations for a large amount of data, and build beautiful graphical analysis and dashboards, get stuck into Tableau. There is a version that is free to use but take heed – it automatically makes your data public. Non-profit licences for Tableau Desktop are available for a fraction of the price. Business intelligence: tools like Power BI and Qliksense/Qlikview can help you create interactive visualisations, dashboards and apps. For charities with quantitative data to upload, Datawrapper, amChartsand Highcharts are open source tools that can help you create a range of infographics, charts and maps.

  16. Inspiring Impact Examples and inspiration

  17. Inspiring Impact Some charity sector examples: Student Hubs Upreach Citizens Advice Homeless Link Street League Macmillan A few different infographics NCVO’s Civil Society Almanac FiveThirtyEight: Gun deaths in America And further afield: 200 countries, 200 years, 4 minutes Kiln Digital Information is Beautiful

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