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Eye Candy: Exploring Interesting Visual Displays of Data

Eye Candy: Exploring Interesting Visual Displays of Data. Nancy Kechner, Ph. D. ITS Research Computing Support in The Scholars’ Lab. This presentation can be downloaded from http:// people.virginia.edu /~nek8n / Eye_Candy.pptx. Why Visualize Data?.

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Eye Candy: Exploring Interesting Visual Displays of Data

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  1. Eye Candy: Exploring Interesting Visual Displays of Data Nancy Kechner, Ph. D. ITS Research Computing Support in The Scholars’ Lab This presentation can be downloaded from http://people.virginia.edu/~nek8n/Eye_Candy.pptx

  2. Why Visualize Data? To communicate information clearly and effectively through graphical means. To make sense out of very large data sets. Fortune 500 • Visualize Patterns over Time • Proportions, Relationships • Comparison • Comparing Across Multiple Variables • Searching for Outliers • Spatial Relationships • Over Space and Time Short Video on the Value of Data Viz David McCandless talks about the beauty of data visualization

  3. A Sampler of Data Viz • A Periodic Table of Data Viz

  4. “Out of the Box Tools” for Data Viz • Excel : Charts and Graphs • Google Doc Spreadsheets : Charts and Graphs • Many Eyes : Visualization Tools and Data • Wordle: Word Clouds • Tableau Software : Analytics Software (free trial) • Your.Flowingdata : Your Personal Twitter Analyzer

  5. Programming • Python • PHP • Processing • Adobe Flash and Actionscript/Flare/Flexexamples • HTML, Javascript, and CSS • R

  6. Illustration(To create things like this) • Adobe Illustrator : Vector Drawing (30 Day Free Trial) • Inkscape : Free Vector Drawing Tool • CorelDRAW : Vector Suite (Free Trial) • Raven by Aviary : Free Vector Tool and Suite

  7. Mapping • Google Maps, Yahoo, and Microsoft Maps • ESRI ArcInfo : UVa has a site license so it’s FREE to you • Virtual Campus : Excellent free courses for you • Scholars Lab : Expert help • Modest Maps : Free library for use with Python and Flash • Polymaps : Free Javacript library for making interactive web-based maps

  8. Data Fun! • Visualize Patterns over Time: • The Growth of Walmart! • Hans Rosling’s TED Talk • Proportions : • Cocktails and More Cocktails • Relationships : • They Rule • Snake Oil

  9. More Data Fun! • Comparison • Right vs. Left • Baby Name Wizard • Comparing Across Multiple Variables • How We Spend Our Day • Colors and Culture • Spatial Relationships • World Mapper • Census Data • National Geographic How We Live

  10. And Still More… • TED Talks : Always good, frequently brilliant • Hans Rosling’s “Joy of Stats” • Meryl.net List • Dataviz.org : A suite of Drupal data viz modules • Smashing Magazine : Modern approaches

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