Dataviz: back to basicsA look at what makes a dataviz work

Cédric Lombion

- Open Data portal

- Semi-structured data (website)

- Private data (partnership)

- PDF : Tabula

- Website : scraping/API

- Graphs : GraphClick

- Will this data answer our initial question?

- Is the data of sufficient quality?

- Fuse (Vlookup, csvkit…)

- Formatting cleaning (OpenRefine)

- Content cleaning

- Simple analysis (spreadsheet)

- advanced analysis (R, Python)

- Physical visualisations

- Interactive visualisations

- Static visualisations

- Web applications

datavisualization infographics

datavisualization infographics

explanatory exploratory

datavisualization infographics

explanatory exploratory

informative persuasive artistic

datavisualization infographics

explanatory exploratory

informative persuasive

artistic

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Let’s play!

Variables/data dimensions

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Cédric Lombioncedric.lombion@okfn.org

schoolofdata.org

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