2. Today, we’ll cover….
What is data visualization?
Why would I use it?
Guiding principles
Different types of charts and graphs
Tools
Planning your visualization: a process template
Charts available in Excel and when to use what
Nuts and bolts of making charts
28. Be careful how you use color
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8784095/r-ggplot-heatmap-using-geom-tile-how-to-sort-by-
year-and-show-all-years-in-y
43. This is the inside of your library
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gibsonsgolfer/6793949719/
44. This is the inside of your library
https://www.flickr.com/photos/christchurchcitylibraries/3134272707
45. 14% agreed or strongly agreed that they are able
to find comfortable seating in the library.
20% agreed or strongly agreed that the library
space is welcoming.
20% agreed or strongly agreed that they are, “able
to easily browse the shelves in the library”
65% agreed or strongly agreed that the library is an
important part of our community
68% agreed or strongly agreed that the library staff
is helpful.
46.
47. Dealer’s Choice!
4 possibilities:
1. Make a new visualization from our discussion of the
visualization template
2. Try Exercise 2 with circulation by hour data as a line graph
3. Play around with “circulation activity by item location
template” and make a visualization with that data
4. Make a new visualization based on your own data
Show and tell if we have time!!
Send them to smorrill@wils.org
48. Resources
Data Visualization for the Rest of Us (Linda Hofschire, Presentation at RIPL
2015): http://ripl.lrs.org/2015/session/data-viz/
Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals
(http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B016DHQSM2)
Which chart or graph is right for you?
http://www.tableau.com/sites/default/files/media/which_chart_v6_final_0.
pdf