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

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/

http://www.fedstats.gov/

http://www.census.gov/main/www/access.html

PROGRAMSynthesize

Program

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

http://datavisualization.ch/tools/13-javascript-libraries-for-visualizations/

http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/

OUTPUTRepresent Results

Examples

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

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

http://www.time.com/time/interactive/0,31813,1549966,00.html

http://wefeelfine.org/

http://www.visualizing.org/full-screen-inner/39040

http://vimeo.com/36154005

http://reas.com/

http://rssvoyage.com/

http://evolutionofweb.appspot.com/

crazyegg

http://www.crazyegg.com/

Everywhere I‘ve Been

https://geoloqi.com/blog/2012/03/data-portraits-powered-by-3-5-years-of-data-and-2-5-million-gps-points/





Jim_Campbell_Formula

http://www.jimcampbell.tv/portfolio/miscellaneous_references/formula.swf

Resources

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

http://www.visualizing.org/

http://www.visualizing.org/

http://polymaps.org/

http://www.vizzuality.com/

http://hyperakt.com/

data visualization

Documents