Author: maggs384

Im currently a student at the University of Western Sydney and studying in the area of graphic design. I have an interest in Illustration, motion graphics and Data Visualisation. In the next couple of years i aim to make my mark as a designer and inspire people with my works.
class work, Data visualisation

Student Health and Time use

These graphs explore the classes OurTime data and focuses on the categories of sport, uni and recreation to give us insight on student health and their time use. The pie charts shows the average hrs spent per day that is spent on these categories from the 47 students records collected. The bar graph shows on average how many hours a day are spent on physical … Continue reading Student Health and Time use

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Data visualisation, Lecture Reflection

Data types

Nominal– consists of unordered named categories. Can be counted and used to find percents. When there are only two categories it is called dichotomous Ordinal– can be used to count and calculate percents, it can possibly find averages if used in the correct way. Interval– is numeric, the 0 represents the starting point. examples of interval data that you may come across are calendars, years … Continue reading Data types

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Data visualisation, Lecture Reflection

Data visualisation introduction

Data visualisation is now a mass medium with tons of followers and recognition. From the view of graphic designers, data visualisation is an essential part of the communication process. Designers engage with the aesthetics, forms and the politics of data presentation from molecular to stelar from deeply personal to global. What is data? Data is the lowest level of abstraction, it is documentation in its … Continue reading Data visualisation introduction

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