Some links we’ll be looking at in workshops this week.
We feel fine by Jonathan Harris
Gapminder community; some serious data here
Feltron; make sure you check out his annual reports to find some ideas for personal data sets
Google charts; API for auto graph generation
Google trends; start comparing some simple data sets
Daytum
September 30, 2008
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Tutorials, Data Visualisation
I started this lecture by discussing how we can use scale, colour, shape, position, movement to help us understand data. As humans, we’re more easily able to apprehend and compare quantities when they’re well presented. I showed a couple of TED videos - Hans Rosling on visualising development economics, and Jonathan Harris about his social-media projects, including the amazing WeFeelFine. We finished with a look at the Radiohead video for House of Cards, which is one giant datavisualisation. Along the way we looked at some other visualisations from NYTimes.com, as well as some pretty work based on archive records, and one on internal crossreferences in a well-known piece of religious literature.Big PDFs of the presentation attached: delicious-ed links in the feed. -MH
September 30, 2008
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Lectures, Data Visualisation