Data visualization:Storytelling with numbers

Trends in Communication & Information TechnologyJOUR 4871-003

My era: Data as afterthought or sidebar

USA Today heightened the data viz game for news

First print edition: 1982

SNAPSHOTS: Early adopter ofInfographic-style data visualization

With the web, interactive data graphics

Real-time Sandy flood gauge: WNYC Data News Team

Allowed people to

see exactly how high the New York City

rivers were in real time.

Data in real time

pulled from river and coastline

flood gauge sensors (public data).

Tell a data story exclusively with charts and graphics

Data-viz tools more sophisticated, easy to useData revealing reported sightings of Bigfoot in

the US between 1955 to 2011

"We wanted to make it easy for anyone to ask questions

of complex data."

"So we built a database-visualization language where

someone with little spare time and no expertise can

create real-time data graphics."

—Christian Chabot, CEO

Windows only, currentlyExpensive software

DEMO

Dozens of FREE data visualization tools(Click chart to go to complete webpage)

Want to try it? ...

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

http://www.dataviz.org/

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