the most influential vizzes of all time (#sxsw)
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This is the slide deck Andy Cotgreave delivered in his "Most Influential Vizzes of all Time" talk at SXSW in 2014TRANSCRIPT
The most influential visualizations of all time
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#5vizzes Andy Cotgreave
@acotgreaveSocial Content Manager, Tableau
The most influential visualizations of all time
25 3
14PRESENTED BY#5vizzes
Andy Cotgreave@acotgreave
Social Content Manager, Tableau
#5vizzes @acotgreave
Influential?
#5vizzes @acotgreave
The most influential visualizations of all time
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John Snow Cholera Map, 1854
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outbreak
John Snow Cholera Map, 1854
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outbreak
John Snow Cholera Map, 1854
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Snow_(physician) #5vizzes @acotgreave
http://johnsnow.matrix.msu.edu/images/online_companion/chapter_images/fig12-4.jpg
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The most influential visualizations of all time
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Gapminder, Hans Rosling
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2:59#5vizzes @acotgreave
Exclusive!Tableau v9
feature reveal!
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The most influential visualizations of all time
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1812
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Napoleon’s 1812 Russian Campaign
What happened to Napoleon’s soldiers?
LivedDied
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Charles Minard’s March on Moscow, 1869
“The graphical representation is gripping; it inspires bitter reactions on the human costof the thirst for military glory”
- V Chevelier (Minard’s son-in-law)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Minard-carte-viande-1858.png #5vizzes @acotgreave
http://cartographia.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/minards-map-of-british-coal-exports/#5vizzes @acotgreave
Charles Minard’s flow map, 1869
What happened to Napoleon’s soldiers?
LivedDied
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What happened to Napoleon’s soldiers?
LivedDied
Charles Minard’s flow map, 1869
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The most influential visualizations of all time
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Mortality in Crimean War, Florence Nightingale
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Nightingale-mortality.jpg #5vizzes @acotgreave
“I can never be sufficiently
thankful to papa for
having given me an interest in Statistical and Political
matters”
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Mortality in Crimean War, Florence Nightingale
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Nightingale-mortality.jpg #5vizzes @acotgreave
https://archive.org/stream/popularsciencemo23newy#page/n301/mode/2up #5vizzes @acotgreave
https://archive.org/details/mortalityofbriti00lond
Mortality in Crimean War, Florence Nightingale
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Nightingale-mortality.jpg #5vizzes @acotgreave
Andy’s Data Viz Bus Tour
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Chart of biography, Joseph Priestley, 1765
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“Laborious and tedious
as the compilation of this work
has been… a variety of
views were continually
opening upon me
during the execution of
it”
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“It is now sixteen years since I first thought of applying lines to subjects of Finance. Was I the first who applied [Priestley’s] principles to Finance?”
- William Playfair
Playfair’s Denmark/Norway imports/exports, 1786
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Playfair_TimeSeries-2.png #5vizzes @acotgreave
But what about modern data viz tools?
Yes we can (mostly)!
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I WANT TO CHANGE THINGS FOR THE BETTER. I HAVE THE
DATA AND THE PASSION TO DO IT.
Debate: @acotgreave Further info: http://tabsoft.co/vizinfluence
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