A presentation I gave about Data Visualization on Global Voices Online Summit in Kenya, July 2012

1. Data Visualization
Tarek Amr
@gr33ndata

2. One Slideshow
Introduction Examples
The Egyptian Political Spectrum (Just Sketch, not even parties, GIMP)
What is Data Visualization? http://www.tarekamr.com/2011/08/egyptian-political-spectrum.html
The main goal of data visualization is its ability to visualize data, communicating information Political Parties Map made by Arabist (Parties added)
clearly and effectively, Vitaly Friedman http://www.arabist.net/storage/uploads/Map%20of%20EG%20Political%20Parties%2012.11.2011.pdf
OR
Egypt Parliamentary Elections Results
"What Is Data Visualization", visually explained, http://ffctn.com/whatisdataviz Done by Paul Van Slembrouck (@ptvan)
I work with startups to turn data into beautiful and simple infographics, visualizations, interactive applications,
and presentations. I have a business degree from the University of Michigan
Visual.ly: What are the elements that make up an infographic? http://visual.ly/egypt-parliamentary-elections, http://www.paulvanslembrouck.com/2012/test-3/
Visualizations that present complex information quickly and clearly Morsi vs Shafik (Clustered Governorates)
Visualizations that integrate words and graphics to reveal information, patterns or trends Morsi's campaign has produced an electoral map showing results.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/middle-east-live/2012/jun/18/egypt-election-muslim-brotherhood-claims-victory-live
Visualizations that are easier to understand than words alone Tool used: results-gadget.js
Visualizations that are beautiful and engaging By Michael Geary, http://mg.to/, http://dr-morsy.appspot.com/results/results-map.html
The Egyptian Uprising According to Twitter
Tools http://visual.ly/egyptian-uprising-according-twitter, http://blog.hootsuite.com/egypt/
Infogr.am is the simplest way to create infographics.
Data Lifecycle
http://infogr.am/
Different Data Sources
We’re building a tool that will allow everyone to quickly and easily create Data acquisition is the process of sampling signals that measure real world physical conditions and converting the
resulting samples into digital numeric values that can be manipulated by a computer.
professional quality designs with their own data. And when you’re ready to show Parties Agents, Indipendant Monitoring, TV, Social Media, etc.
your work to the world, publish it on your Visual.ly profile, your own personal
showcase. Collaborative Data Collection and Analysis
Google Documents was used as a platform for different users to collaborate in entering data, validating and doing
http://visual.ly/ simple summation on such data
Data Visualization
Gephi is an interactive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and Data was turned into visual maps (Michael Geary's Results Gadget) or Infographs (Paul Van Slembrouck
complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs. Infograph)
http://gephi.org/
Links
Data Collection Analyzing the Top 30 Infographics on Visually, http://www.paulvanslembrouck.com/2012/analyzing-top-30-viral/
Google Docs in Elections Results 10 Awesome Data Visualization Tools for the Web,
Collaboration http://digitalanalog.in/2012/05/15/10-awesome-data-visualization-tools-for-the-web/

3. What is Data Visualization?
The main goal of data visualization is its ability to visualize data,
communicating information clearly and effectively, Vitaly Friedman

4. What are the elements that make up
an Infographic?
• Visualizations that …
o present complex information quickly and
clearly
o integrate words and graphics to reveal
information, patterns or trends
o are easier to understand than words alone
o are beautiful and engaging
Source: Visual.ly

5. The Egyptian Political Spectrum

6. Map of Egyptian Political Parties
Jacopo Carbonari, The Arabist

7. Seats Won by Parties, Lower House

8. The Egyptian Presidential Elections
Morsi vs Shafik Morsi's percentages
Publish on Morsi’s site. Done using Michael Done by Eric Schewe, American PhD
Geary’s results-gadget.js student in History living in Egypt

9. Morsi Meter
http://www.morsimeter.com/
Data Visualization can be as simple as a progress bar!

10. DataViz Lifecycle
• Different Data Sources: Data acquisition is the
process of sampling signals that measure real
world physical conditions and converting the
resulting samples into digital numeric values that
can be manipulated by a computer.
– Parties Agents,
– Independent Monitoring
– TV
– Social Media
– Etc.

11. DataViz Lifecycle
• Collaborative Data Collection and Analysis:
Google Documents was used as a platform for
different users to collaborate in entering data,
validating and doing simple summation on
such data

12. DataViz Lifecycle
• Data Visualization:
Data was turned into visual maps (Michael
Geary's Results Gadget) or Infographs (Paul
Van Slembrouck Infograph)

13. Tools
• Infogr.am is the simplest way to create infographics,
http://infogr.am/
• Visual.ly is a tool that will allow everyone to quickly and
easily create professional quality designs with their own
data. And when you’re ready to show your work to the
world, publish it on your Visual.ly profile, your own
personal showcase, http://visual.ly/
• Gephi is an interactive visualization and exploration
platform for all kinds of networks and complex systems,
dynamic and hierarchical graphs, http://gephi.org/