Slides from SXSW 2015 session on the intersection of data and design:
http://schedule.sxsw.com/2015/events/event_IAP41090
By Trina Chiasson from https://infoactive.co
1. DATA + DESIGN
where math and art collide
Trina Chiasson, Infoactive | @trinachi | infoactive.co/data-design
2. This year, I did something new.
I worked with 80+ volunteer
contributors to write a
300-page ebook.
3.
4. How do you write an
open source ebook?
It started with a messageâŠ
5. Hi Trina! Stats dork from Chicago hereâŠ
Do you have any plans to include tutorials
for basic data cleaning and data selection
techniques for users who may not have
any statistics background?
â Dyanna Gregory
6. This is what most statistics textbooks look like.
Most designers sayâŠ
29. Donât underestimate the
awesomeness of strangers
on the internet.*
* Especially strangers who volunteer to
write books about data in their free time.
30. In six months,
we wrote and released the
English version.
Data + Design is now being
translated in Chinese, Russian,
Spanish, and French.
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34. Is it true that
dataviz people
hate pie charts?
43. A table is nearly always better than a dumb pie chart;
the only worse design than a pie chart is several of them,
for then the viewer is asked to compare quantities located
in spatial disarray both within and between charts [âŠ]
Given their low density and failure to
order numbers along a visual dimension,
pie charts should never be used.
Edward Tufte, "The Visual Display of Quantitative Informationâ
64. Finding boundaries in color vs. shapes
Adapted from: Healey, Christopher G., Kellogg S. Booth, and James T. Ennis. âHigh-Speed Visual Estimation Using
Preattentive Processing.â ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 3.2 (1996): 4.