Eye Candy: Exploring Interesting Visual Displays of Data Nancy Kechner, Ph. D. ITS Research Computing Support in The Scholars’ Lab This presentation can

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?

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

http://fathom.info/fortune500/

http://columnfivemedia.com/the-value-of-data-visualization/

http://www.ted.com/talks/david_mccandless_the_beauty_of_data_visualization.html

A Sampler of Data Viz

A Periodic Table of Data Viz

http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html

“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

https://docs.google.com/

http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/

http://www.wordle.net/

http://www.tableausoftware.com/

http://your.flowingdata.com/

Programming

Python

PHP

Processing

Adobe Flash and Actionscript/Flare/Flex examples

HTML, Javascript, and CSS

R

http://www.python.org/

http://www.php.net/

http://processing.org/

http://flare.prefuse.org/

http://www.adobe.com/products/flex.html?promoid=DJDQX

http://www.brightworks.com/technology/adobe_flex/examples.html

http://joeymarburger.com/2010/12/08/getting-started-with-html5-data-visualizations/

http://thejit.org/

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/data-visualization-with-css-graphs-charts-and-more/

http://www.r-project.org/

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

http://www.princeton.edu/~ina/infographics/starbucks.html

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/09/29/creating-graphs-with-adobe-illustrator/

http://inkscape.org/

http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Product/1191272117978%23versionTabview=tab1&tabview=tab0

http://www.aviary.com/tools/vector-editor

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

http://maps.google.com/

http://maps.yahoo.com/

http://www.bing.com/maps/

http://www.esri.com/

http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/reference/help/esri/virtualcampus/

http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/

http://modestmaps.com/

http://polymaps.org/

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

http://projects.flowingdata.com/walmart/



http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fabiorex/5363855234/sizes/l/in/set-72157625636900017/

http://flowingdata.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Engineers-Guide-to-Drinks11.pdf

http://www.theyrule.net/

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/

More Data Fun!

ComparisonRight vs. Left

Baby Name Wizard

Comparing Across Multiple VariablesHow We Spend Our Day

Colors and Culture

Spatial RelationshipsWorld Mapper

Census Data

National Geographic How We Live

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/blog-html/leftvright_US.html

http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager

http://www.nytimes.com//interactive/2009/07/31/business/20080801-metrics-graphic.html?hp

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/colours-in-cultures/

http://www.worldmapper.org/

http://www.censusscope.org/us/map_popchange_90-00.html

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/03/age-of-man/map-interactive

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

http://www.ted.com/talks

http://www.gapminder.org/videos/the-joy-of-stats/

http://www.meryl.net/2008/01/22/175-data-and-information-visualization-examples-and-resources/

http://www.dataviz.org/

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/02/data-visualization-modern-approaches/

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Eye Candy: Exploring Interesting Visual Displays of Data Nancy Kechner, Ph. D. ITS Research Computing Support in The Scholars’ Lab This presentation can