Precedent Infographic & Data Visualisation Collection, Surgery & Redcrow [screenshot] (2014)Retrieved October 4, 2017, from http://surgeryredcow.com/infographic-data-visualisation-collection Text and Colour Scheme Reworking the text and colour scheme into one of my bar graphs Continue reading 3B Style Guide
What story does it tell: It shows us how many and why types of trees that can be found in New York How does it tell it: It breaks up the 5 major areas in New York. It then lists all the types of trees that can be found in these areas and assign each genus with a colour. by clicking on a type of tree … Continue reading An interactive visualisation of NYC street trees
What are we spending our screen time on? From the data collected from studying “Our time” at Western Sydney University, we can observe the time uses on student screen time and what they are used for. We can see in the bar chart below, what is the most popular form of technology used by students, it is very clear that the desktop is most frequently … Continue reading Student screen time
Out of the 28 students from the data set, only 20 of them partake in some form of physical exercise in a week. With the health recommendation of 30 minutes per day, 8 students aren’t meeting these health recommendation with a further 8 that are under the recommended amount of time, while others go to the extreme, this can be seen in the bar chart … Continue reading Student time use and exercise
Nathalie Miebach uses art, particularly sculpture and music to display data that she has collected in regards to weather, she uses sculpture and music to not only make things visible but also tactile and audible. Through her sculptures as shown below Miebach explains that “every coloured bead, every coloured string represents a weather element. And together, these variables, not only construct the form, but they … Continue reading Data Visualisation Case
Visualising information can allow us to see the connections and patterns better, There is a lot of data out there but the questions you ask can make you find interesting patterns and stories. In modern times all of us have become exposed to data visualisation through the web and other mediums so much so that we are all now demanding a visual aspect, it had … Continue reading David McCandless: The beauty of data visualisation
Part 1: What is Data Journalism? It is the use of key information and data to inform a story. It can convey information and stories in an easy to understand way but it can also make it more believable as the reader can make their own opinions and observations about the topic as there are no opinions, just the facts. Part 2: History of Data … Continue reading Part 1: What is Data Journalism?, Part 2: History of Data Journalism at The Guardian, Part 3: Data journalism in action: the London Olympics
Why do we use graphs? simply, it is to make comparisons easier. Designers often make the wrong decisions in regards to presentation as they focus more on visually appealing results. The example below (figure1) by Alberto Cairo from The Function Art (2013) makes comparisons using bubble charts, it gives us a good overview on of each of the banks and their differences in those two … Continue reading Graph presentation styles: why we use them
It is difficult for people to analyse large amounts of data, by designing simples charts it becomes a tool for understanding, for example the graph “A Comparison of Spain’s and Sweden’s fertility Rates” as shown below, it makes the large data source that it originally came from a whole lot clearer to understand as it compares each data sources in a visually coherent way. A … Continue reading Visualisation: Historical and contemporary visualisation methods part 2
We use visualisation to present large and complex data sets where people will be able to understand the content easily and fast. It is more then representing complex data in an interesting and appealing way but it provides the audience with tools for them to analyse and make comparisons on their own. Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War 1858 utilised a chart to show and … Continue reading Visualisation: historical and contemporary visualisation methods part 1
Data Visualisation 