Data Visualization:

Stories, Insights & Cautions

The Fourth Paradigm of Science

• First Paradigm. Observation, descriptions of natural phenomena, and experimentation.
• Second Paradigm. Theoretical science such as Newton’s laws of motion and Maxwell’s equations.
• Third Paradigm. Simulation and modelling, such as in astronomy.
• Fourth Paradigm. Data-intensive science that exploits the large volumes of data in new ways for scientific exploration, such as the International Virtual Observatory Alliance in astronomy.

Bell G, Hey, T., & Szalay, A. (2009) Beyond the data deluge, Science 323, 6 March 2009, pp. 1297-1298.

Data Science for COM.BigData 2014 http://semanticommunity.info/Data_Science/Data_Science_for_COM.BigData_2014

Informed by:

• Edward Tufte
• Katy Borner
• Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin West

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Data Visualization

http://cdnlarge.tableausoftware.com/sites/default/files/pages/the_5_most_influential_data_visualizations_of_all_time_0.pdf

Big Data = Opportunity

Humanities, Sciences, Librarians

https://medium.com/thelist/moving-from-data-science-to-data-literacy-a2f181ba4167

What's your point?

Is the data the product?

Is the visualization the product?

http://data.library.virginia.edu/data-management/

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~eklanche/digdemog/index.html

https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/when-a-machine-learning-algorithm-studied-fine-art-paintings-it-saw-things-art-historians-had-never-b8e4e7bf7d3e

Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1408.3218 : Toward Automated Discovery of Artistic Influence

Sources for learning

Duke Library LibGuide    

http://guides.library.duke.edu/content.php?pid=355157&sid=2904817

ESRI ARCGIS

LITA

Data Science - University of Washington

IV MOOC

Magnuson, L. (2016). Data visualization : a guide to visual storytelling for libraries.