OU Stats Conference - Quick Ways In to DataViz
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This document discusses creating rich interactive visualizations without extensive programming by starting with the data and using visualization tools. It recommends getting data into the right format and environment, such as a spreadsheet, text editor, or database, then exploring visualization options from static charts to interactive visualizations built with tools like Tableau, Gephi, Processing, or R. The key is choosing a tool that supports needed dimensions and properties like filtering, zooming and manipulating the data visualization.
OU Stats Conference - Quick Ways In to DataViz
- 1. Visualisations for the Rest of Us - How to Create Rich Interactive Visualisations Without Any of the PainTony HirstCommunication and Systems,The Open University
- 4. ( Data Driven Journalism )
- 6. BIG DATA
- 14. For the creatorSpreadsheet chartsVisualisation applicationsOff-the-shelf visualisation componentsBespoke programmed visualisations
- 15. Data Shapes“Shape Sorter”, by Ella’s Dad
- 17. Data representation is key…“Key”, by dewitt
- 18. What makes for a good visualisation tool?
- 20. ComparingSortingAdding variablesFilteringHighlightingAggregatingRe-expressingRe-visualisingZooming and PanningRe-scalingKey Properties of an EffectiveVisualisation Environment
- 21. So let’s start at the beginning……with the DATA
- 22. GetTheData.org
- 28. Manipulating DataSpreadsheetText editorDatabase/query languageMaths/stats toolProgramming language(Data cleansing tool)
- 30. In the right format, or in the right environment, a “dataset as document” can become a queryable database
- 33. Fishing for ideas and keeping up…
- 37. IBM’sMany Eyes
- 40. Tableau
- 41. Google Public Data Explorer
- 42. Gephi
- 44. Link reception (2 receipts)
- 45. Using colour for a reason
- 46. So how many dimensions does support?
- 47. X and Y (at a push, Z)Node size and colour(Node label size and colour)Edge thickness and colour(Edge label and colour)Node proximity/groupingClusteringFiltering and differential application of the above
- 49. Data filtering
- 53. Protovis
- 55. Processing
- 57. http://bit.ly/iMZF75Using R for creating visualisations
- 58. R-Studio
- 59. Data Journalism Developer StudioData Science Toolkit
- 60. (Probably no time for)QUESTIONS…?http://blog.ouseful.info@psychemedia
Editor's Notes
- #2: OU Statistics Conference, May 18th, 2011For many people, the ability to visualise data is limited to generating chart types provided by spreadsheet applications and statistical software tools, or delving into the intricacies of scientific programming libraries. However, the rapid growth in the publication of public data sets on the one hand, and the development of powerful graphics generating libraries capable of running in web browsers as well as in desktop applications on the other, has resulted in the proliferation of tools supporting interactive visual data exploration and analysis. The growth in "data journalism" has also spurred news media organisation such as the New York Times to invest in the development of online interactive data exploration tools.In this presentation, I shall review some of the available tools and libraries, including the open source Gephi application (a graphical network analysis package) and IBM's Many Eyes suite of interactive charts, and demonstrate how they can be used to support interactive exploration of data sets without the requirement of programming knowledge. If time allows, the presentation will also cover the rise in visual "data cleansing" applications such as Google Refine and the Stanford Visualisation Lab's Data Wrangler tool.
- #17: Shape into representation
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