Media & Technology - Visualization - Presentation

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Slide presentation (10 minutes)

Access the "Visualization" presentation on Google Slides.

Highlights

Make your data work best for you

• Clean your data
• Transform your data from wide format to long format

Create your narrative

• What will your visualization tell people?
• How does this narrative fit into your project?

Tips

• Don’t encode more than 10 colors
• Never truncate bars

Further reading and learning

Books

• Cairo, Alberto. Links to an external site. The Functional Art: An Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization.  Berkeley, Calif.: New Riders, 2013.
• Meirelles, Isabel. Design for Information: An Introduction to the Histories, Theories, and Best Practices Behind Effective Information Visualizations. Beverly, Mass.: Rockport Pub., 2013.
• Ware, Colin. Visual Thinking for Design. Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies. Burlington, Mass. : Amsterdam: Morgan Kaufmann ; Elsevier Science & Technology, 2008.
• Wilke, Claus O. Fundamentals of Data Visualization Links to an external site.. Online preview.
• Kirk, Andy. Data Visualisation: A Handbook for Data Driven Design. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2016.

LinkedIn learning tutorials

• Learning Data Visualization Links to an external site.
• Data Visualization: Storytelling Links to an external site.
• Data Visualization: Best Practices Links to an external site.

Blogs and websites

• Flowing Data Links to an external site.
• Visualizing Data Links to an external site. (Andy Kirk)
• Eager Eyes: Visualization and Visual Communication Links to an external site.

For fun

• WTF Viz Links to an external site.
• Junk Charts Links to an external site.
• XKCD Links to an external site.
• Wait But Why Links to an external site.
• Spurious Correlations Links to an external site.

Introduction | Presentation | Activity