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Week 8: Data Visualisation Case

TED Talk ‘Art made of storms’ by Nathalie Miebach talks about her journey on visually transferring and depicting information in different fields.She talks about what it takes to create a good data visualisation. This includes all internal and external factors, whether it be referring to statistical information and the group of categories. In comparison toContinue reading “Week 8: Data Visualisation Case”

Data Art

What story does it tell?News Cloud is basically a data visualisation of an archive that keeps track of keywords relating to the key point that fluctuate over time. How does it tell it?Each term within the visual data is representented as a circle that depends on their sizing, the scaled from smallest to biggest rangeContinue reading “Data Art”

Useful Links

The Data Visualisation Catalogue: this website includes different visual types you could integrate your data information into. Flowing Data: blog about data visualisation where it discusses different visuals and what topic is being discussed within, it also provides information about what data visualisation is all about RAW Graphs: program where you can visualise your data(e.g.Continue reading “Useful Links”

My Time

During class, we were able to be more practical with the program Tableu. As I was using the Mac’s in the lab, unfortunately most of my work saved on that desktop could not transfer through email.But regardless, as shown above, in this task we were able to visualise the class data into a graph. EachContinue reading “My Time”

Week 7: David McCandless: The beauty of data visualisation

In this TED Talk, David McCandless talks about the beauty of visualisation as he discusses various attributes to how and why it is so glorious. Data visualisation is so important in the way it stores information which can be understood within a short time if the design is curated in a practical and appealing structure.Continue reading “Week 7: David McCandless: The beauty of data visualisation”

Week 6: Data Journalism

Part 1: What is Data Journalism?It’s about using the power of data. They key information and data is important of the process of it. You are enables to do an interactive map, rather than being confined and restricted to just text or image based articles. Data Journalism gives you the power to interpret information visually,Continue reading “Week 6: Data Journalism”

Week 5: Data presentation Styles – 1: Graphs

Graphs are used to represent data information visually. This is supported in its various ways of presentation styles rather than for aesthetic purposes, which designers often mistake the use of graphs for. The main idea is that the reader is able to understand what this graph is presenting and what information is serves to document.WeContinue reading “Week 5: Data presentation Styles – 1: Graphs”

Week 4: Visualisation: Historical and contemporary visualisation methods – Part 2

We visualise in order to gain an insight and understand complex articles. The Functional Art: An introduction to information graphics and visualization by Alberto Cairo: Talks about the world’s population and the rising fertility; countries in poverty. Highlights young group population and the relevant topic on them such as violence. Fertility rates have been droppingContinue reading “Week 4: Visualisation: Historical and contemporary visualisation methods – Part 2”

Week 3: Visualisation: Historical and contemporary visualisation methods – Part 1

Historical and contemporary visualisations methods that are being discussed throughout this lecture demonstrate the roots of this method and how it was implemented through time. The examples given were events that took place in war such as The Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia in 1812. Above is a graph used to document the Napoleon’s invasion ofContinue reading “Week 3: Visualisation: Historical and contemporary visualisation methods – Part 1”

Week 2: Data Types

In data visualisation, there are various types of data that can apply the same information but look different. The types include:– Nominal: pertaining to names– Ordinal: order– Interval: numeric, can do mathematical operations on it but does not have a meaningful zero point. Examples include calendars, temperatures– Ratio: zero means you dont have anything ofContinue reading “Week 2: Data Types”