Interactive Data Visualisation for Researchers

Workshop presentation given to Early Career Researchers and Doctoral Students as part of NARTI (Northern Advanced Research Training Initiative) at Northumbria Business School, Newcastle, UK in January 2018.

Part of a 1-day workshop on Positioning Your Research for Impact and Interactive Data Visualisation - see https://lubswww.leeds.ac.uk/narti/events/article/positioning-your-research-for-impact-and-interactive-data-visualisation-registration-closed/

The aim was to provide participants with an overview of current trends with respect to interactive data visualisation and to provide participants with an opportunity to develop an interactive data visualisation plan for their own research

Transcript

1. Interactive Data Visualisation David Kelly Digital Humanities Manager, Moore Institute National University of Ireland, Galway
2. https://medium.com/@kennelliott/39-studies-about- human-perception-in-30-minutes-4728f9e31a73 “Everything we know about how humans interpret graphics” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0J6EDvlN30, Kennedy Elliot
3. Explorable Explanations
4. Explorable Explanations An active reader asks questions, considers alternatives, questions assumptions, and even questions the trustworthiness of the author. An active reader tries to generalize specific examples, and devise specific examples for generalities. An active reader doesn't passively sponge up information, but uses the author's argument as a springboard for critical thought and deep understanding. Bret Victor, March 10, 2011: http://worrydream.com/ExplorableExplanations/
5. Why?
6. New Perspectives
7. Cultural Networks Data from interviews with cultural practitioners: • Demographic • Funding • Relationship types • Geographic data Dr. Patrick Collins – Geography @ NUI Galway
9. Dr Mark Stansbury – Classics @ NUI Galway
11. Data Exploration
12. https://www.axios.com/the-flow-of-goods-between-states-1513304375-5d9d9ddc-b0fe-4d0d-a556-dab4279acbe0.html
13. Dr Patrick Collins & Dr Aisling Murtagh – Geography @ NUI Galway
14. Impact & Engagement
15. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/upshot/presidential-polls-forecast.html https://www.theguardian.com/business/ng- interactive/2017/sep/18/what-is-the-average-debt- where-you-live
16. GalwayDashboard.ie Economic Baseline Assessment for Galway City & County Prof. James Cunningham, Galway City Council, Galway County Council
17. Complexity & non-expert users
18. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/upshot/presidential-polls-forecast.html
19. http://projects.propublica.org/louisiana/
20. The Guardian, Feb 2015
21. How?
22. • Do it yourself • Collaborate with cross sector or cross departmental professionals • Seek the help of IT professionals • Provide the data to others for them to produce the visualisation. Gatto, M. (2015), “Making Research Useful: Current Challenges and Good Practices in Data Visualisation” http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/our-research/visualisation-academic-research
23. Consider
24. Consider* Labels, Annotation & Supporting Text Colour Context Interaction Design Suitability of vis. choice to data Where & how will it be engaged with? Fonts Layout / Interface Design Audience(s) Accessibility
25. Paper
26. http://datasketch.es
29. A Process
30. https://design-worksheets.github.io/
31. https://design-worksheets.github.io/
32. Your Audience(s)?
33. DANGER
34. From: http://viz.wtf/
35. https://flowingdata.com/2017/02/09/how-to-spot-visualization-lies/
37. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/trump-charts/
38. https://venngage.com/blog/misleading-graphs/
40. From: http://de.slideshare.net/vis4/making-data-visualizations-a-survival-guide
41. https://flowingdata.com/2017/02/09/how-to-spot-visualization-lies/
42. https://flowingdata.com/2009/11/26/fox-news-makes-the-best-pie-chart-ever/
43. From: http://viz.wtf/
44. https://flowingdata.com/2017/02/09/how-to-spot-visualization-lies/
45. Useful Tools Mostly web-based, free option, little/no programming
46. http://chartmaker.visualisingdata.com
47. à CSV Import.io Option for non-profit / student use Code-based: Data Gathering, Cleaning & Preparation Mapping Charting Data Management Design Visualisation
48. Code-based: Data Gathering, Cleaning & Preparation Mapping Charting Data Management Design Visualisation A free, open source, powerful tool for working with messy data openrefine.org
49. • Limited free plans available Code-based: • Map design • Data storage • Embed maps Data Gathering, Cleaning & Preparation Mapping Charting Data Management Design Visualisation carto.com mapbox.com
50. Data Gathering, Cleaning & Preparation Mapping Charting Data Management Design Visualisation Omeka Plugin storymap.knightlab.com
51. Data Gathering, Cleaning & Preparation Mapping Charting Data Management Design Visualisation
52. Code-based: Data Gathering, Cleaning & Preparation Mapping Charting Data Management Design Visualisation http://datamatic.io www.datawrapper.de
53. Data Gathering, Cleaning & Preparation Mapping Charting Data Management Design Visualisation https://timeline.knightlab.com Uses a Google Spreadsheet as a data source https://juxtapose.knightlab.com/
54. Data Gathering, Cleaning & Preparation Mapping Charting Data Management Design Visualisation https://juxtapose.knightlab.com
55. Code-based: Data Gathering, Cleaning & Preparation Mapping Charting Data Management Design Visualisation http://palladio.designhumanities.org/ gephi.org http://hdlab.stanford.edu/
56. Data Gathering, Cleaning & Preparation Mapping Charting Data Management Design Visualisation public.tableau.com/s/ Also offer free academic licenses for Tableau Desktop for students & teachers
57. Data Gathering, Cleaning & Preparation Mapping Charting Data Management Design Visualisation http://www.metabase.com/
58. Data Gathering, Cleaning & Preparation Mapping Charting Data Management Design Visualisation • Colour Choices (Maps) - http://colorbrewer2.org • ProPublica's Nerd Guides - https://github.com/propublica/guides • UK Government Service Design Manual - https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/user-centred-design/data- visualisation.html • Data Viz Style Guide Collection: http://policyviz.com/style- guides/ • ai2html - an open-source script for Adobe Illustrator that converts your Illustrator documents into html and css (NY Times)
59. Data Gathering, Cleaning & Preparation Mapping Charting Data Management Design Visualisation “Easily manage all your research outputs and make them available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner” http://www.nature.com/sdata/policies/repositories
60. Data Gathering, Cleaning & Preparation Mapping Charting Data Management Design Visualisation …gives you the digital analytics tools you need to analyze data from all touchpoints in one place
61. http://www.clean-sheet.org/
62. Emerging Areas
63. Thank you David Kelly david.d.kelly@nuigalway.ie
64. • “The list of 2017 visualization lists”: http://www.maartenlambrechts.com/2017/12/28/the-list-of-2017- visualization-lists.html • The Data Visualisation Catalogue: https://datavizcatalogue.com/ • Seeing Data: http://seeingdata.org • Gatto, M. (2015), “Making Research Useful: Current Challenges and Good Practices in Data Visualisation” - http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/our-research/visualisation-academic-research Books • “The Visual Display of Quantitative Data” (2001) by Edward Tufte • “The Functional Art: An introduction to information graphics and visualization“ (2012), Alberto Cairo • “Visualising Data” (2016) by Andy Kirk Useful Resources