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Exploring Data
About this Blog This blog is a journal through data visualisation with notes from lecture pods and the analysis of data.
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About the Author
Hi there! My name is Tahlia & I’m currently in my second year of Visual Communication. I enjoy photography, videography and graphic design – I have built my own online profile under ‘Subtle Scene’ on Facebook and Instagram. From this unit, I’d like to further improve my skills in graphic design, illustrator and be able to understand data to… Read more
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Lecture 6 – Data Journalism
Part 1 What is Data Journalism? The GuardianData journalism is a report on data to reveal key information to inform a story. It is the ‘Modern way of journalism’Visualising to make the data easier to understand and more engaging for the audience Part 2 History of Data Journalism at The Guardian Guardian’s first ‘bound edition’ was… Read more
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Lecture 7 – Beauty of Data Visualisation
David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization David Mccandless from Ted Global talks about data and the importance of visualisation. Patterns/texture and colours can create impact the way a user interprets data. Data is the new soil – patterns can be revealed by organising and collecting data Data using the eye speaks two languages Who… Read more
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Week 11
Student Screen Use The following dashboard shows how students use their time including screen use. The chart below shows the most used screen devices and the hours per day. I also included the category which used the most amount of screen time which was university and recreation. The middle graph shows the types of activities… Read more
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Lecture Pod 5 – Graphs
Leo Cmielewski Why we use Graphs? They make comparisons easier by using a range of aesthetics. Shapes or colours eg. Bubble chart Human Visual Perception is important to presenting data, here is an example of ranking visualising data. History of O-Ring Damage Weak graphics of O-ring damage and temperature Fused together into little rockets, unable… Read more
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Lecture 4 – Historical and Contemporary (Part 2)
We visualise data to gain insight to understand a complex issues. Creating a visual tool (data visualisation) to simplify hard to read data. The Functional Art – Alberto Cairo Comparison between reading data in numbers to visualising in graph form. When trying to find a certain comparison in data, its to memorise numbers and compare… Read more
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Lecture 8 – Data Visualisation Case
Nathalie Miebach – Ted Global 2011// The Art made of storms Pressure wind and temperatures graph of data which were read and played by a musicians to show weather changes from Hurricane Nowell. Each bead and band were read as musical notes to create a melody. Nathalie uses visual elements to tell data stories using… Read more
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Lecture 3 – Historical & Contemporary visualisation
Leon Cmielewski The story of Napoleon’s army heading towards Moscow, starvation and disease while being attacked and defeated by the Russians. The following is an infographic of the distance between the polish border to moscow – left to right. The diagram displays different variables, indicating the total and strength of the army by the use… Read more
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Week 12 – Style Guide
Assessment 3B Quick Style Guide Typography Colour Scheme Info graphic example style (precedent) + hero image Moodboard by Pinterest Hero Image Example
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Lecture 2 – Data Types
Basic Data Types Collecting and wrangling data helps to find the right visualisation for your needs. There are 4 basic levels of measurement – nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio Nominal – Named categories of which the data is formed (unordered) Super market example. Used to calculate percentage of eg. Canned, frozen, produce, dairy… Ordinal –… Read more
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Lecture 1 – Introduction
Visualization is a mass medium, for data visualization which is essential for communicating information and presentation of data. Data is a measurement of values, either in quantity or qualitive, where it is displayed as graphs or images to create ‘Data Visualisation’ – it is the ‘modern equivalent’ of visual communication. It is information displayed as… Read more
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