workshop on visualizing data at UNR given in Fall 2011

1. Visualizing Data 9/12/2011 Lisa Kurt Emerging Technologies Librarian Lisa Kurt “twitterized” by: http://visual.ly/twitter

4. Let’ s make it cooler

5. More cooler

6. Not awesome enough yet

7. Does it get better than this?

8. Wow.

14. 3 words on chart junk… Don’t do this.

15. Remember that food pyramid thing? then now

16. Hrishi Mittal Rafal Dittwald Original graph: http://flowingdata.com/2010/02/25/challenge-make-this-graph-easier-to-read/ Brendan

17. http://www.japanquakemap.com/

18. http://xkcd.com/radiation/

19. Save pens. Use Garamond font

20. http://flowingdata.com/category/visualization/

21. How Genetics Works http://flowingdata.com/2010/03/05/how-genetics-works/

22. Rethinking the food nutrition label… http://flowingdata.com/2011/08/12/rethinking-the-food-nutrition-label/

23. http://flowingdata.com/category/visualization/page/2/ We have a need to explain and understand our world… even the humorous sides.

24. Conventions can work with us. Can you spot conventions used in this infographic? http://lemon.ly/slider/the-united-states-use-of-food-stamps

25. Crayola Crayon Colors Multiply Like Rabbits http://flowingdata.com/category/visualization/page/4/

26. Great Breakdown on Tools and Techniques: http:// www.visualisingdata.com/index.php/resources /

27. Not everything that looks hard, is as hard as it looks.

28. Many Eyes http:// manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com

29. “ Yes We Can visualized”

31. Google Visualization API http://code.google.com/apis/visualization /

32. Want to be like Hans Rosling?!? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w

33. http://code.google.com/apis/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/motionchart.html Now you can!

34. Graphviz http://graphviz.org /

35. Finite State Machine

36. Unix versions

37. The code!

38. Flash/ActionScript http://actionscript.org /

39. BabyName Wizard http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager #

41. EigenFactor http:// www.eigenfactor.org

43. Hmm… neat but that looks a little too fancy for me… Not everything that looks hard, is as hard as it looks!

44. Processing http:// processing.org

45. Webpage Graph http://www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/?url=http:// google.com

47. Deprocess http://benfry.com/deprocess/

49. Imagination and drawing Your brain + pencil

50. I am Beck Tench. http://becktench.com/

51. http://becktench.com/

52. This is indexed http://thisisindexed.com/

54. Retrieved from Beautiful Visualization: Looking at Data Through the Eyes of Experts

55. http://xkcd.com/688/