#datavizinsixweeks, week 1 - context, data viz vs. data interaction
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Context
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Week One
What is data visualization? Historical context
Week Four
Design issues & best practices
Week Two
Visualization typesWeek Five
Big data, data management
Week Three
Perception and cognitionWeek Six
Synthesis
Data Viz In Six WeeksAn Introduction to Visual Analytics course taught at OCAD University, Toronto
By Anne Stevens
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Introduction to Visual Analytics
CSDM 1N50
Anne Stevens
stevensanne.com
Class Tableau Public acct: [email protected]
Password: OCADocad (or ocadOCAD) (sorry)
Class slides
Go to slideshare.net, then search for DataVizInSixWeeks
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Today
Introductions Me
You
The course
Concepts Historical context
Data visualization vs. data interaction
Tools Tableau Public
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Historical context
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World Map. 1592collectionscanada.gc.ca/education/008-3070-e.html
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William Playfair
Scotland’s Imports and Exports. William Playfair. 1786decohan.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/nature-of-visualisation
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Florence Nightengale
Diagram of the causes of mortality in the army in the East. Florence Nightengale. 1858 decohan.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/nature-of-visualisation
Grey = disease. Pink = battle wounds. Black = other causes.
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Charles Minard
Carte figurative des pertes successives en hommes de l'Armée Française dans la campagne de Russie 1812-1813. Charles Minard, 1869 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Minard.png
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Charles Minard
Effect of US Civil War on trade in cotton, 1858, 1862. Charles Minard. 1863.cartographia.wordpress.com/category/charles-joseph-minard/
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John Snow
Cholera outbreaks in London. John Snow, 1854.commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snow-cholera-map-1.jpg
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Density and Intensity of Illiteracy in France. Baron Pierre Charles Dupin, 1826.euclid.psych.yorku.ca
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galileofeynman.blogspot.ca/2013/01/about-bertillonage-anthropometry.html
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The Horse in Motion. Eadweard Muybridge. 1878uj.apertura.hu/2014/nyar-osz/fogl-uton-utfelen
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Hand mit Ringen. Wilhelm Rontgen. 1895en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray
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20th century
The dark ages of statistical graphics
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What is data visualization?
ted.com/talks/david_mccandless_the_beauty_of_data_visualization#t-873046
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Information visualization
InfoViz
Info Graphics
Data visualization
Data analysis
Visual analytics
Medical/scientific visualization
Map-based viz (GIS)
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Edward Tufte
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Truthiness
churchnumbers.com/less-is-more/
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High data to ink ratio
http://www.solutions2.be/DidYouKnow.aspx
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No graphic ducks
Edward Tufte. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
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Left vs. Right. David McCandlessdavidmccandless.com
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Manifest Justice Exhibition, Los Angeles, May 2015c/o http://www.afropunk.com/profiles/blogs/feature-manifestjustice-art-exhibit-in-los-angeles
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SatCat Database: every piece of space debris > 10cm dia.
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Hours & hours of number crunching
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Anne StevensEvery Satellite Ever
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Fortune 500
The Fortune 500. Ben Fryfathom.info/fortune500
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Visual analytics
The Care and Condition Monitor. Anne Stevens et al. OCAD Visual Analytics Labstevensanne.com/?portfolio=brava-design-for-mobile
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What would Tufte say about these?
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Jason Salavon
Jason SalavonLate Night Triad
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Lev Manovich
Lev ManovichMapping Time
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Immaterials: light painting WiFi, Kjetil Nordby, 2011nearfield.org
Uses a portable four meter high measuring device and long-
exposure photography to map WiFi fields around RFID
devices in urban spaces.
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Physical data vizFundament, Andreas Nicolas Fischer. 2008.
anf.nu/fundament
Tokyo earthquake data sculpture. Luke Jerram. lukejerram.com
Yvonne Jansen, Pierre Dragicevic, Jean-Daneil Fekete
Keyboard frequency sculpture. Michael Knuepfel
aviz.fr/Research/PassivePhysicalVisualizations
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Beyond visualization
1750 – 1900: Golden Age of statistical graphics
1900 – 1975: Dark ages
1975: Renaissance
1975 onwards: Era of high-dimension, interactive data visualization
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Week One
What is data visualization? Historical context
Week Four
Design issues & best practices
Week Two
Visualization typesWeek Five
Big data, data management
Week Three
Perception and cognitionWeek Six
Synthesis
Data Viz In Six WeeksAn Introduction to Visual Analytics course taught at OCAD University, Toronto
By Anne Stevens
stevensanne.com
stevensanne.com/blog/
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