What is Data Viz?

 The power or process of forming a mental picture or vision of something not actually present to the sight; a picture thus formed  (OED)

“Transformation of the symbolic into the geometric”

(McCormick et al., 1987)

 

“...finding the artificial memory that best supports our natural means of perception” (Bertin, 1983)

“The use of computer-supported, interactive, visual representations of abstract data to amplify cognition”

(Card, Mackinlay, & Shneiderman, 1999)

What is Data Viz?

The use of graphical techniques to convey information and support reasoning. 

(Pat Hanrahan)

Goals of Visualization

*specific*

Scott Berinato

Historic Examples

Exports and Imports of Scotland
William Playfair
1786

Diagram of the Causes of Mortality in the Army in the East
Florence Nightingale
1858

Visualization Of Napoleon's 1812 March
Charles Joseph Minard
1869

Visualization Of Napoleon's 1812 March
Charles Joseph Minard
1869

Contemporary Examples

NYC Street Trees

https://www.cloudred.com/labprojects/nyctrees/

"Everything on Paper Will Be Used Against Me:" Quantifying Kissinger
Micki Kaufman

http://blog.quantifyingkissinger.com/category/interactivity/

Simulated Sediment Deposition at Continental Margins
Candise Henry

Global Flows of Agriculture and Forestry Feedstocks
Brandon Morrison

https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~jheer//files/zoo/ex/time/stack.html

https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~jheer//files/zoo/ex/time/multiples.html

https://informationisbeautiful.net/

https://history.infowetrust.com/

https://datavizcatalogue.com/

https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~jheer//files/zoo/ex/time/stack.html

https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~jheer//files/zoo/ex/time/multiples.html

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