visualising the evidence kate davis | @katiedavis | qut
data visualisation infographics visual thinking information design
communicate sense-make make accessible unravel complexity clarify
i’m not a visual person
i don’t have a creative bone in my body
we’re wired for visualisation
blog.visual.ly/why-is-data-visualization-so-hot/
proliferation of tools drowning, not waving big data open data
communicate data visually
bringing together data from different sources
20th century death. Information is beautiful informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/20th-century-death/
200 countries, 200 years, 4 minutes
communicate stories visually
infographics are stories that incorporate visualisations
video image interactive
the digital lives of american mums. nielsen nielsen.com/us/en/newswire/2012/digital-lives-of-american-moms.html
13 reasons why your brain craves infographics
16 useless infographics theguardian.com/news/datablog/gallery/2013/aug/01/16-useless-infographics
76%
of the extreme poor live in rural areas
16 useless infographics theguardian.com/news/datablog/gallery/2013/aug/01/16-useless-infographics
16 useless infographics theguardian.com/news/datablog/gallery/2013/aug/01/16-useless-infographics
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our thoughts are like this
or maybe like this and we try to make them like this
sense-make in pictures
communicate ideas in pictures
infographics sketchnotes mind maps diagrams visualisations
free & easy infographic tools piktochart
visua.ly infogr.am
visme canva
easel.ly
diy design you’ll need:
powerpoint / keynote maybe photoshop sources for icons
fonts
most useful thing you’ll learn about today:
the noun project
katedavis.info slides, resource
& tool lists, useful reading
good infographics start with
good data
good analysis
a good story
good information design
visual impact
1. organise your data find, sort, organise data
go to original sources
organise references
2. find your story what is it you want to say?
then pull out the data that tells your story
example story tell me a story about undergrad
IT students’ use of facebook
find 4 insights in the data
3. plan work out dimensions
create a (very rough) wireframe
activity how will you represent your
4 insights?
4. design how can you best
represent the data? graphs? numbers? images?
activity how will you represent your
4 insights?
4. design consider:
size, typography, colour, shapes, images, layout
activity design it!
activity homework: send it to me
[email protected]
thank you!
katedavis.info kate davis | @katiedavis | qut