ini235 library workshop on finding and visualizing census...
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INI235 Library Workshop on Finding and Visualizing
Census DataKelly Schultz, Data Visualization Librarian
Fall 2017
Agenda• Map & Data Library Services• Assignment• Census Data• Data Visualization• Demo• Data Citation• Hands-on Practice• Wrap-up
Assignment – Summary of Census PartsCities & Census: Analysis (Get Census Data)“…choose two Canadian Census Metropolitan Areas (CMA)…examine and compare with Canada overall...conducting basic calculations using three variables from 2016 census data...”Cities & Census: Visualization (Visualize Data)“…create a one-page…data visualization that builds on your Cities & Census: Analysis assignment, using 2016 Census Data…you will add 1-2 new variables...”
Census
Census Geography
Statistics CanadaCensus Program
CHASS Canadian Census Analyser
Visualization Workflow
Visualize Data
Pie Charts
57%
43%
Percentage of Married/Common-Law vs Not Married/Common-Law in Mississauga (2016)
Married or livingcommon law
Not married and notliving common law
Pie Charts
Bar Graphs
0.00%
5.00%
10.00%
15.00%
20.00%
25.00%
30.00%
35.00%
40.00%
Single-detached house Apartment in a buildingthat has five or more
storeys
Other attacheddwelling
Percentage of Types of Dwellings Occupied for Mississauga(2016)
Bar Graphs
Bar Graphs
Group or Clustered Bar Graphs
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
0 to 14 years 15 to 64 years 65 years and over
Age Range Percent of Population by City
Pickering, ON Mississauga, ON Niagara Falls, ON
Maps
Demonstrations
Data Citation
Hands-on Practice
Wrap-up
Image Credits• Slide 1: Toronto, flickr.com/Michael Gil, https://flic.kr/p/8wyADj• Slide 2: Manos, morguefile.com/xololounge, http://mrg.bz/Yda9Is• Slide 4: Drawing and coloring, FreeImages.com/ Ove Tøpfer,
http://www.freeimages.com/photo/drawing-1313453• Slide 5: TW15_052915_1MA_3933_13591_16657, flirk.com/TED
Conference, https://flic.kr/p/tMwPQL• Slide 6: Hierarchy of standard geographic units for dissemination, 2011
Census, Statistics Canada/Canada Post Corporation, http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/ref/overview-apercu/pop9-eng.cfm#9b
• Slide 9: Adapted and simplified visualization workflow from Borner, K., & Polley, D. (2014) Visual Insights. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Image Credits• Slide 11: Nightmarish Pie Charts - Top 100 Twitter Users in a Pie Chart,
from Chandoo.org, http://chandoo.org/wp/2009/08/28/nightmarish-pie-charts/
• Slide 13: Principles of Information Visualization Tutorial – Part 1 Design Principles presentation [Slide 71] by Jessie Kennedy from Institute for Informatics & Digital Innovation, Edinburg Napier University, http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/vizbi/2012/principles.pdf
• Slide 14: Bar Chart Baselines Start at Zero, Nathan Yau from FlowingData, http://flowingdata.com/2015/08/31/bar-chart-baselines-start-at-zero/
• Slide 17: Red Velvet Theatre Curtain, FreeImages.com/Peter Togel, http://www.freeimages.com/photo/red-velvet-theatre-curtain-1141913
Image Credits• Slide 19: El balcó més clàssic, flickr.com/Eduard Boada i Aragonès,
https://flic.kr/p/ceZsmS• Slide 20: Student asking question teacher, flickr.com/www.audio-luci-
store.it, https://flic.kr/p/nzxidV; Post-it sticker small yellow emtpy single left up - GIMP 2.8 by User:Mattes (creator), eyeknife (idea) - Own work. Licensed under GFDL via Wikimedia Commons -https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Post-it_sticker_small_yellow_emtpy_single_left_up_-_GIMP_2.8.png#/media/File:Post-it_sticker_small_yellow_emtpy_single_left_up_-_GIMP_2.8.png