December 12 2017
Maarten Lambrechts
Data visualization in Sociology
"As knowledge increases amongst mankind, and transactions multiply, it becomes more and more desirable to abbreviate and facilitate the modes of conveying information from one person to another, and from one individual to the many."
William Playfair, 1786
"Everything that can be expressed in numbers can be represented by lines."
John Playfair
Party | Oct 2010 | Sep 2012 | May 2013 | Oct 2013 |
---|---|---|---|---|
N-VA | 28,2 | 36,3 | 32,1 | 27,9 |
CD&V | 17,6 | 18,5 | 17,4 | 19 |
SP.A | 14,9 | 14,5 | 14,7 | 13,4 |
VB | 12,6 | 9,5 | 10,6 | 10,6 |
VLD | 14 | 10,7 | 10,1 | 13,8 |
Groen | 7,1 | 7,9 | 9,5 | 10 |
LDD | 3,7 | 1,3 | 0,4 | 1,3 |
PVDA | 5 | 5 | 2,5 | 3,9 |
Other | 2 | 1,2 | 2,6 | 0,1 |
Avoid the Zones of Invisibility & Irrelevance
The annotation layer is the most important thing we do. Otherwise it's a case of here it is, you go figure it out.
Amanda Cox
New York Times
with a good title
(a little bit of) color
annotations
x1 | y1 | x2 | y2 | x3 | y3 | x4 | y4 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
10 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 8.04 | 9.14 | 7.46 | 6.58 |
8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 6.95 | 8.14 | 6.77 | 5.76 |
13 | 13 | 13 | 8 | 7.58 | 8.74 | 12.74 | 7.71 |
9 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8.81 | 8.77 | 7.11 | 8.84 |
11 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 8.33 | 9.26 | 7.81 | 8.47 |
14 | 14 | 14 | 8 | 9.96 | 8.10 | 8.84 | 7.04 |
6 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 7.24 | 6.13 | 6.08 | 5.25 |
4 | 4 | 4 | 19 | 4.26 | 3.10 | 5.39 | 12.50 |
12 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 10.84 | 9.13 | 8.15 | 5.56 |
7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 4.82 | 7.26 | 6.42 | 7.91 |
5 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 5.68 | 4.74 | 5.73 | 6.89 |
Github repo: git.io/vb0u0
Html doc: git.io/vb0uP