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What is Data Vis?

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March 01, 2016
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What is Data Vis?

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March 01, 2016
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Transcript

  1. WHAT IS DATA VIS? and why should I care? Jim

    Vallandingham Data Visualization Engineer @ Bocoup

  2. BOCOUP.COM

  3. None

  4. WHAT IS DATA VIS? A Short boring Answer

  5. WHAT IS DATA VIS? Visual Encoding Of data To Communicate

  6. WHAT IS DATA VIS?

  7. WHAT IS DATA VIS? But what is it Really?

  8. WHAT IS DATA VIS? A Long boring Answer

  9. WHAT IS DATA VIS? fancy Barcharts

  10. WHAT IS DATA VIS? fancy Barcharts (not really)

  11. fancy Barcharts

  12. fancy Barcharts

  13. WHAT IS DATA VIS? A History

  14. A History Babylonian c. 1400 BCE

  15. A History William Playfair 1821

  16. WHAT IS DATA VIS? An Intersection

  17. An Intersection

  18. WHAT IS DATA VIS? An Academic Field

  19. An Academic Field

  20. An Academic Field

  21. An Academic Field

  22. WHAT IS DATA VIS? A Design Process

  23. Design is a process Not a Product

  24. Data Design is a Specific kind of design process Scott

    Murray

  25. But to What End?

  26. WHAT CAN DATA VIS DO? What’s the Point?

  27. WHAT CAN DATA VIS DO? Aggregate and Elucidate

  28. Aggregate and Elucidate

  29. Aggregate and Elucidate

  30. Aggregate and Elucidate

  31. Aggregate and Elucidate

  32. Aggregate and Elucidate

  33. WHAT CAN DATA VIS DO? Show Connections

  34. Show Connections

  35. Show Connections

  36. Show Connections

  37. Show Connections

  38. WHAT CAN DATA VIS DO? Tell A Story

  39. Tell A Story

  40. Tell A Story

  41. Tell A Story

  42. WHAT CAN DATA VIS DO? Increase Data Literacy

  43. WHAT CAN DATA VIS DO? In a Good Way

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  46. WHAT CAN DATA VIS DO? In a BAD way

  47. In a BAD way

  48. In a BAD way

  49. In a BAD way

  50. In a BAD way

  51. WHAT CAN DATA VIS DO? Increase Algorithmic Literacy

  52. Increase Algorithmic Literacy

  53. Increase Algorithmic Literacy

  54. WHAT CAN DATA VIS DO? Change The World?

  55. Change The World

  56. Change The World

  57. Change The World

  58. Everyday in Science Change The World

  59. VISUALIZING How can you get into this Awesome field?

  60. Code-less

  61. Code-less RAW

  62. Code-less LYRA

  63. Code-less TABLEAU

  64. Code-less DATABASIC

  65. Code-ful

  66. Code-ful PYTHON MATPLOTLIB

  67. Code-ful PYTHON SEABORN

  68. Code-ful R GGPLOT2

  69. Code-ful JAVASCRIPT P5.JS

  70. Code-ful JAVASCRIPT

  71. TIPS & TRICKS Things that could Help you Visualizing

  72. Start with the Data

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  74. Focus on your audience & What questions they Have

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  76. Use visualizations that Answer These Questions

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  78. Everything is A Remix

  79. But share your inspirations!

  80. Possible Inspiration Sources

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  85. Iterate Iterate Iterate With a Friend

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  87. Have Fun! Thanks

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  89. MY WORK Cause I’m Very important

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  96. VALLANDINGHAM.ME @vlandham