SESSION 3
Infographics
and Data Visualization
for beginners
Wednesday 24th November, 2021
Laura Navarro & Storydata
- Types of graphs
- Choosing the right one
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Recommended literature:
An Economist’s Guide to Visualizing Data -Jonathan A. Schwabish .
- Presentation of Flourish
- Kinds of graphs and stories
- Creation of a graph
Infographics and Data Visualization
Structure
Theory
Practice
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1.20h
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Basic Data Visualizations
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How do formats and styles affect your data?
One Dataset, Visualized 25 Ways
Nathan Yau
One dataset, 25 graphs
This compares trends over time and for each country
One dataset, 25 graphs
This shows countries separetly so that lines don't overlap
One dataset, 25 graphs
This focus on the difference between two sexes, with comparison across countries
One dataset, 25 graphs
This shows the distribution and also the evolution
One dataset, 25 graphs
This also shows the distribution and the evolution, but it focus on each year
One dataset, 25 graphs
This shows the distribution spread
Infographics and Data Visualization
Getting to the point
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What do you do when you have a lot of data? How should you visualize it? Here’s what you can do:
- Ask the data questions.
- Start with the visualization basics.
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Focus.
https://ft-interactive.github.io/visual-vocabulary/
Deviation
BAR DIVERGING
BAR DIVERGING-STACKED
SPINE-CHART
BALANCE FILLED LINE
Emphasise variation (+/-)
LINE
COLUMN TIME-LINE
COLUMN-LINE-CHART
SLOPE
AREA
CIRCLE TIME-LINE
Change over time
Changing trends
SCATTERPLOT
COLUMN-TIME-LINE
BUBBLE
XY HEATMAP
SPURIOUS CORRELATIONS
Correlation
show relationship between variables
ORDERED COLUMN
ORDERED BAR
SLOPE
LOLLIPOP
BUMP
Rankings
importance of the position
HISTOGRAM
BOXPLOT
DOT PLOT
PYRAMIDS
Distribution
how often
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Distribution
COLUMN STACKED
PIE CHART
DOUGHNUT
TREEMAP
GRIDPLOT
Part-to-a-whole
show part of a variable to its total
CHOROPLETH
POINTS/DOTS
FLOW
CONTOUR
EQUALISED CARTOGRAM
CARTOGRAM
Spatial
geographical patterns
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Flow
SANKEY
CHORD
NETWORK
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Enable accurate estimates
May enable general estimates
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Your turn
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iMo-xtqDT72V2ZlplRG5dQyLDb2cI4Oi-50OM0MTUUE/edit?usp=sharing
Data
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Line vs. Column
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