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Murphy - DataVisualization Slides
Murphy - DataVisualization Slides
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November 16, 2016
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Data
visualization
is not new
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautical_chart#/media/File:Fern%C3%A3o_Vaz_Dourado_1571-1.jpg
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Playfair
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Playfair
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Playfair
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Playfair
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http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/21cc/publichealth/sources/source5/mapofleeds.html
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Playfair
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http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/21cc/publichealth/sources/source5/mapofleeds.html
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Data visualization
“… all types of visual representations
that support the exploration,
examination, and communication of
data.”
-Stephen Few
Now You See It: Simple Visualization
Techniques for Quantitative Analysis
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Graphic displays
are often very
effective at
communicating
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Graphic displays
are also often
not effective at
communicating
information 17
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https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/graphs.html
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http://www.chartjs.org/ 22
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https://www.datawrapper.de/gallery/
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D3.js
https://d3js.org/
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Excel
https://products.office.com/en-us/excel
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Google Charts
https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery
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Piktochart
https://piktochart.com/
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https://www.r-project.org/
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SAS
https://support.sas.com/sassamples/graphgallery/
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Timeline
https://timeline.knightlab.com/
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Tableau
https://public.tableau.com/en-us/s/gallery/scripps-national-spelling-bee-difficulty/31
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Stephen Few
Now you see it:
Simple visualization
techniques for
quantitative analysis.
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Stephen Few
Information Dashboard
Design: Displaying Data
for At-A-Glance
Monitoring.
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Dona M. Wong
The Wall Street Journal
Guide to Information
Graphics
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Cole Nussbaumer
Knaflic
Storytelling With Data: A
Data Visualization Guide
for Business
Professionals.
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Know your
audience
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https://public.tableau.com/en-us/s/gallery/endangered-safari
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http://go.osu.edu/GateCount 39
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Provide
context and
incorporate
instructions
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http://vizcandy.blogspot.ca/p/tableau-8-redoux.html 41
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https://public.tableau.com/en-us/s/gallery/weekly-news-iron-viz-2015-champion 42
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Add
interactivity
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https://public.tableau.com/en-us/s/gallery/scripps-national-spelling-bee-difficulty 44
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Apply visual
best
practices
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http://blog.darkhorseanalytics.com/salvaging-the-pie
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Pie Chart
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http://go.osu.edu/GateCount 53
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Small Multiples
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Mapping
http://go.osu.edu/REACH-Dashboard 58
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Word Clouds
http://go.osu.edu/OSUL_HumanTraffickingAwareness
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Tree Maps
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Tree Maps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_multiple
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Data
visualization ≠
data narrative
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Narrative
“An account of a series of events,
facts, etc., given in order and with the
establishing of connections between
them; a narration, a story, and
account.”
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Examples
Chronicle of Higher Education
Where Does Your Freshman Class Come From?
http://www.chronicle.com/interactives/where-does-
your-freshman-class-come-from#id=inst_204796
Bread for the World Institute
Unmasking Hidden Hunger
https://public.tableau.com/profile/derek4529#!/vizh
ome/UnmaskingHiddenHunger_0/TheNewFaceofH
unger
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Examples
ProPublica
Workers Comp Benefits: How Much is a Limb
Worth?
https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/workers-
compensation-benefits-by-limb
Faces of Fracking
California’s Getting Fracked
http://www.facesoffracking.org/data-visualization/
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References
Few, Stephen. 2006. Information Dashboard Design: Displaying Data for At-a-
Glance Monitoring. Burlingame, CA: Analytics Press.
Few, Stephen. 2009. Now You See It: Simple Visualization Techniques for
Quantitative Analysis. Oakland, CA: Analytics Press.
Friendly, Michael. 2008. “ Brief History of Data Visualization.” In Handbook of
Data Visualization, edited by Chun-houh Chen, Wolfgang Härdle, and Antony
Unwin, 15-56. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Knaflic, Cole Nussbaumer. 2015. Storytelling With Data: A Data Visualization
Guide for Business Professionals. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & Sons.
Playfair, William. 1786. The Commercial and Political Atlas: Representing by
Means of Stained Copper-Plate Charts, the Progress of the Commerce,
Revenues, Expenditure and Debts of England During the Whole of the
Eighteenth Century.
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References
Segel, Edward and Jeffrey Heer. “Narrative Visualization: Telling Stories with
Data.” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 16, no. 6
(2010):1139-1148.
Simon, Phil. 2014. The Visual Organization: Data, Visualization, Big Data, and
the Quest for Better Decisions. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley.
Sviolkla, John. 2009. “Swimming in Data? Three Benefits of Visualization.”
Harvard Business Review https://hbr.org/2009/12/swimming-in-data-three-
benefit
Wong, Dona M. The Wall Street Journal. Guide to Information Graphics: The
Dos and Don’ts of Presenting Data, Facts, and Figures. (New York: W.W.
Norton & Co., c2010).
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QUESTIONS?
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Coordinator of Assessment & Professor
University Libraries
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