Modern Data Visualization @ ThatConference

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3. Modern Data Visualization That Conference
4. agenda brief overview best practices tools to get started
5. agenda brief overview best practices tools to get started 
 after the session: •find me in person •email me: adzick@gmail.com •tweet me: @ashleydzick
6. data vis helps with important discoveries
7. Cholera Dr. John Snow - Cholera Cluster Map
8. Florence Nightingale - Army Mortality
9. Minard's Visualization Of Napoleon's 1812 March
10. Minard's Visualization Of Napoleon's 1812 March
11. Minard's Visualization Of Napoleon's 1812 March
12. data vis helps with explanation
13. Simpson’s Paradox
14. StitchFix Algorithms Tour
15. best practices
16. don’t make humans remember stuff 1.
18. How many times do you have to see something before you remember it?
20. humans are bad at approximating area 2.
21. Stephen Few, Perceptual Edge
22. Stephen Few, Perceptual Edge
23. Stephen Few, Perceptual Edge
24. convey meaning with more than just colors 3.
25. USA Today Gas Price Heat Map
26. USA Today Gas Price Heat Map
27. Joshua Stevens using NASA Visualization Studio
28. Joshua Stevens using NASA Visualization Studio
29. think beyond static graphs 4.
30. Simpson’s Paradox World Bank Visualizations, Infant Mortality
31. National Geographic When Children Lack Nutrition
32. National Geographic When Children Lack Nutrition
33. give them a story to follow 5.
34. Simpson’s Paradox NY Times, Punishing Reach
35. Gates Notes, The Deadliest Animal in the World
36. Simpson’s Paradox NY Times, Changing Nature of Middle Class
37. best practices 1. don’t make humans remember stuff 2. humans are bad at approximating area 3. convey meaning with more than color 4. think beyond static 5. give them a story to follow
38. tools to get started
39. process cleanse your data color is important choose your visualization tool
40. In no order.. • ColorBox • ColorBrewer • Adobe Color • Colormind • Chroma.js • Colorgorical • Plus dozens others
41. Simpson’s Paradox projects.susielu.com/viz-palette
42. michelf.ca/projects/sim-daltonism
43. Flourish Web based Fairly easy to pick up Free (Paid option available) Excel upload Check out:
 flourish.studio
44. Tableau Little to no programming Fairly easy to pick up Connect to most data sources Expensive
45. R Leader in data visualization Favored in academia Great for statistic learning and predictive analytics Check out:
 ggplot2, htmlwidgets, Leaflet
46. Python Huge community Incredibly customizable Similar syntax to other languages Great for machine learning Check out:
 Matplotlib, pandas, bokeh
47. Which should I use? Fast one-off visualization: Flourish Don’t want to code: Tableau, PowerBI Software Engineering: Python Academia: R Machine Learning: Python Statistical Modeling: R
48. reading • The Functional Art — Alberto Cairo • Visual Display of Quantitative Information — Edward Tufte • Design for Information — Isabel Meirelles • Storytelling with Data — Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic • Presenting Data People Can’t Ignore - Hubspot eBook
49. more visualizations to check out 1. How 2 M.T.A. Decisions Pushed the Subway Into Crisis
 Great use of SVGs and CSS3 to make incredibly fast “animated” visualizations 2. What’s Your Major? 4 Decades of College Degrees, in 1 Graph
 Simple graph with powerful story 3. Why Budapest, Warsaw, and Lithuania Split Themselves in Two
 Good use of colors and animation, uses multiple visualizations to tell the story 4. Trucks and Beer
 Analysis of country music with good use of static graphs
50. questions? 
 slides will be on: thatconference.com, @ashleydzick (twitter), & dzick.com