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
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
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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