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James Davenport
February 06, 2015
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DST4L 2015 - Ch2
James Davenport
February 06, 2015
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Transcript
Let’s play a game... Art or Data?
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Data Art 4 hours using Eclipse, traced with IOGraph “14
Billions” (2010) by Tomás Saraceno
Art “14 Billions” (2010) by Tomás Saraceno
Data 4 hours using Eclipse, traced with IOGraph
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Ellsworth Kelly Jaz Parkinson Data Art
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Ellsworth Kelly Data Art James Davenport
Visualization
“The best statistical graph ever drawn…” -Edward Tufte (except it
wasn’t drawn for PowerPoint or computers)
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2006$ 1983$ 1990$ 1997$ Publica1on$ Amount$I$learned$from$Publica1on$ The$Edward$Tu@e$Bibliography$ Reviewed$by$@jradavenport$
“The%thing%I've%spent%more%2me%on…% is%trying%to%iden2fy%all%those%things%in% peoples%minds%that%serve%as%obstacles% to%them%understanding”% =%Al%Gore%
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CO 2$
CO 2$ Temperature$
omg$ CO 2$ Temperature$
omg$ CO 2$ Temperature$ A great visualization: sells the message,
worth 1000 words (or $1.2 Trillion annually)
Some thoughts on visual “story telling” with PowerPoint (or any
medium, really)
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All of this is to say: If the reader is
distracted by your visualization, they’re not getting the point!
Visualization Tools To encourage good plots, we need good default
settings!
Visualization Tools • Python (matplotlib) • Tableau • R •
Excel
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