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Data Visualization. Which is bigger? Purple or Green?. Data Visualization Outline. Data Presentation Academic Research Studies Traditional Types of Charts Bar, Pie, Line, Scatter, et al Number of Variables: 1, 2, 3, …. Multi-Dimensional / Interactive DataViz Data Visualization Software
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Which is bigger? Purple or Green?
Data Visualization Outline • Data Presentation • Academic Research Studies • Traditional Types of Charts • Bar, Pie, Line, Scatter, et al • Number of Variables: 1, 2, 3, …. • Multi-Dimensional / Interactive DataViz • Data Visualization Software • Ease of Use vs. Customization • Excel versus R • ggplot2 • Interactive
Which Types of Visualizations Better Help Convey Insights? Experiment: Using the same data create different charts, and see what insights people draw from them?
Why Is This Graph Bad? Why Is This Graph Better? http://lilt.ilstu.edu/gmklass/pos138/datadisplay/sections/goodcharts.htm
Which Types of Scatterplots Better Help Convey Data Reduction?
Emerging Types of Charts / DataViz • More Complex Formats • Interactive • Infographics • More Complex Data • Networks • Heatmaps • Parallel Coordinates Which Types of Visualizations Better Help Convey Insights?
Exploratory Interactive Data Viz Software
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What software do you use for creating charts or data visualizations? BI Tools Spotfire Cognos MicroStrategy .net BIRT cytoscape flot gephi gnuplot graphite iDashboards Incanter Java JMP Ptotobi Silverlight splunk SSRS talend webGL Wijmo WPF Xcelcuis XLMiner LogiXML MDX Mondrian octave openlayers OpenViz PhP Powerpoint precog Prezi processing Javascript: Raphael Highcharts Arbor jfreecharts May, 2013 N=172
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Excel • Bar • Histogram • Box / CI’s • Line • Scatter • Pie
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ggplot2 In ggplot2 a plot is made up of layers Pl o t
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