Proposed By
Jiatyan Chen
Summary
Which tools and what is everyone is doing for data visualization? How are you using it? for persuasion? for reporting? to make decisions? to explain a concept?
What data do you have to work with, and for which audience? Why and how did you pick the data viz? Share some of the cool data viz you've seen or built, and learn from each other on what not to do.
What data do you have to work with, and for which audience? Why and how did you pick the data viz? Share some of the cool data viz you've seen or built, and learn from each other on what not to do.
Notes
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ML0CCyCQLQe_EEXwsYX_EeUcakhRcrSOCSzYTnCK7Gk/edit
How do you use data viz to tell a story?
- End state/goal/what we want people to feel → collect data → is the data interesting? or useful? what's the impact?
- What questions are we trying to answer? tracking changes before and after? Looking for
- https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_let_my_dataset_change_your_mindset
- http://senseable.mit.edu/trashtrack/trashtrack_release.mov starts 1:15
- https://twitter.com/karim_douieb/status/1181934417650040832
What works? What doesn't? What's cool? How to pick?
- Here’s a fairly comprehensive Visualization Tutorial
- https://www.data-to-viz.com/
- Keep it simple, takes a lot of time!
- Animation + interactive
What kind of data do you come across? What problems do you currently encounter? Multi-dimension data?
- Keeping people engage, polling, real time
- Data from biomedical core
- Enrolment data
What do you need to know as background knowledge?
- Visual design
- Make it simple for the user, no thinking for the user.
- Just go for 1 big idea, don't try to do everything.
- Check out #data-practitioners COP
Which tools?
- D3 - steep learning curve, flexible, SVG output
- Tableau
- HighCharts
- R
- Python
- Chart.js → canvas component, fully responsive
- VictoryChart (based on D3)
- Marketo data → Grow → daily snapshots https://app.gogrow.com/dashboard/share/bf4d968c99470408f10b2bd78f221416
- Google Data Studio
Year
2020
