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.

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18. How many times do you have to see something before

    you remember it?
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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
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