Lightning Talk & Data Visualization
Tuesday April 26
Lightning Talk
A lightning talk is a short presentation meant to highlight the most important or interesting aspect of your topic.
For this assignment, you will give a 3-minute talk on the topic of your literature review, accompanied by a single static slide.
Thursday 5/5 & Tuesday 5/10
Lightning Talk
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Your name
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Images or text as you choose to convey information to the audience
3 minutes is approximately 350-450 words, depending on how fast you speak. You can write out your whole talk, or a simply create a bullet point outline.
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A brief overview of your topic
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Key take-aways, highlights, interesting or important or surprising things you learned
The slide must either be in Microsoft PowerPoint format or saved an image file—jpg or
png. NO PDFs. The is due to me via BB or email scohn@ccny.cuny.edu no later than 10am on the day
you are scheduled to present.
What is Data Viz?
The use of graphical techniques to convey information and support reasoning.
(Pat Hanrahan)
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Charts
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Graphs
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Maps
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Infographics
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Word Clouds
Goals of Visualization
Exploratory
Uncover relationships in the data
Analyze data
Explanatory
Communicate a relationship in the data
Present data
*general*
Goals of Visualization
What story you want to tell
What key points you want made
*specific*
What do you want people to understand through it
Scott Berinato
Scott Berinato
Design Considerations
Type of visualzation
Color
Labels
Interactivity
Data Visualization
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Create a data visualization
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Write a 2-3 paragraph explanation
Explanation should include:
- Why you chose the dataset
- why you chose the type of visualization
- what you want viewers to learn or understand from it
Your data visualization can take whatever form you’re comfortable with. Hand drawn, created in Excel....
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wCrOInBc4yB43n44fRdgKbveZFn7kUk1-jiasZOVAmQ/edit
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12xXhyKo4EQRKVwNon1uFxslbGARGWFnMx-gkZbHEKEo/edit
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PXsk_42k6MM_IrD86jMr1iLKwqEWy580mt-gDALNY4k/edit
https://infogram.com/nypd-arrest-data-1hdw2jnvwm9e4l0?live
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Research0426
By Sarah Cohn
