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