What is data visualisation?

William Playfair (1805)

www.xcellextech.com/Blog/2010/06/designing-interactive-excel-2007-charts/

www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/05/25/sunday-review/corporate-taxes.html

stefanieposavec.co.uk

www.fastcodesign.com/1669468/how-gm-is-saving-cash-using-legos-as-a-data-viz-tool

What is data visualisation for?

Informing

Analysis

Exploration

Story telling

Wonder

etc.

Why visualise?

Spreadsheet from tennis-data.co.uk

Single table, each row represents a single match

Each match consists of: round, winner, loser, ATP points, games won in each set etc.

From 1877

wimbledon.prcweb.co.uk/matchtree.html

What is data?

What media can we use?

Digital

Paper

3d-printing

Lego

Food

Sound?

blog.visual.ly/the-making-of-fat-or-fiction-infotography/

www.fastcodesign.com/1669468/how-gm-is-saving-cash-using-legos-as-a-data-viz-tool

Science...

Source: Information Dashboard Design, by Stephen Few

...or art?

www.georgeandjonathan.com

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