visualization of data mind map

VISUALIZATION OF DATA

My mind map notes from #WIAD16Speaker was Troy Palanca

http://ph.linkedin.com/in/tjpalanca

What data is…Data needs

Design Designers

Need to have mindset to communicate it to others

What data is…Data

weirdJust like

your undergrad thesis

People not needing it

People are not obliged to read your work no matter how brilliant

it is

There was a disconnect between really good analysis vs. the

academia and research institutions

Standardized collection of

Stories

Meaning

How data is processed…Data

Standardized

collection of stories

Add context

How bad really is Kuliat Public School in relation to other public

schools?

Say, Schools

Rows Columns

How bad really is Kuliat Public School in relation to other public

schools?

How is it staffed?

No. of rooms

No. of students dropped

out

Stories of each

schoolBudget

per student

Say, Schools

Rows Columns

How bad really is Kuliat Public School in relation to other public

schools?

How is it staffed?

No. of rooms

No. of students dropped

out

Stories of each

schoolBudget

per student

How is it in relation to other populations?

Say, Schools

Rows Columns

How bad really is Kuliat Public School in relation to other public

schools?

Add more context to the story…

Another example,

Rows Columns

Condensing State of the Nation Addresses of Philippine

Presidents

.. … ….

How much

they talk about certain topics

Presidents

Looking at tweets,

Rows Columns

it reflects on how a business is run.

.. … ….

How much

they talk about certain topics

Presidents

Create interesting stories…

See the bigger picture instead of one the individual story

Looking at tweets,it reflects on how a business is run.

Create interesting stories…

See the bigger picture instead of one the individual story

Emotion polarity of tweets

Air Asia Cebu Pacific

PAL

5 steps to story telling…Define row/

protagonists

Define elements of

the storyCollect data Tell the

story Visualize

1 2 3 4 5

5 steps to story telling…

Define row/ protagonists

11 2 3 4 5

Schools Country

5 steps to story telling…

Define elements of the story.

21 2 3 4 5

What do you want to know of the protagonists?

5 steps to story telling…

Collect data

31 2 3 4 5

Define what you want to do

5 steps to story telling…

Tell the story

41 2 3 4 5

5 steps to story telling…

Visualize

51 2 3 4 5

Why need this?

Builds trust Keeps abstraction to a minimum

Facilitates info assessment

Beneficiaries vs.

Population of poor areas

Cognitive overload when reading a table

instead

Ways to analyze data…

Exploratory Descriptive Inferential/

Predictive

a b c

Ways to analyze data…

Exploratory Descriptive Inferential/

Predictive

a b c

Display all info available without

removing info

Leads to higher trust No bias Less control

Ways to analyze data…

Exploratory Descriptive Inferential/

Predictive

a b c

Processed to show subset of data

Less trust Processed to make it useful

Ways to analyze data…

Exploratory Descriptive Inferential/

Predictive

a b c

Lots of control to show audience

Making conclusions

Visualizing

Cartesian

Elements – deliberate design

Polar coordinat

es

Points

Columns

Bars

Coordinates

Geometries

Aesthetics

ColorSize

WidthShape

Mapped to a data value

Should represent something

If it’s not ‘mappable’, don’t map it.

We want as much information density as possibleBut we don’t want to put all the information there.

Visualize these…

Financial habits of Filipino household

Election data

Why do this?

Filipinos have problem with scale

Most organizations have small windows to get to

see what people are doing.

They do well in coordination but once it

increases in size, dysfunction settles in

Lacks trustLack of

common data/ info available

Bureaucracy Nationalism Patronage

politicsLittle kingdoms

Control