Lecture 7: Datavisualisation
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
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