data visualization

Data Visualization

Or: What Happens When We Take Some Things And Make Them Look

Like Other Things?

Representation≈≠≅

Abstraction

Representation≈≠≅

Abstraction

Info-Graphics vs. Aesthetic Compositions

Method

• Gather Data• Synthesize• Represent Results

Method

• Gather Data• Synthesize• Represent Results

Input Program Output

INPUTGather Data

Sources

• APIs (Application Programming Interface)– Twitter

• Wolfram• Government Databases– Gov’t Printing Office– FedStats– Census

PROGRAMSynthesize

Program

• Parametric / Dynamic / Live Data• Grasshopper• Javascript Libraries for Visualizations• HTML5 Canvas• Wolfram– Alpha– Mathmatica

OUTPUTRepresent Results

Examples

• Hans Rosling Presentation• Time – Where America Lives• We_Feel_Fine• Path v1.0• Deluge• REAS• RSSVoyage• Evolution_of_the_Web

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Everywhere I‘ve Been

Jim_Campbell_Formula

Resources

• Visualizing.org• DataVisualization.ch• Polymaps• Vizzuality• Hyperakt