Data Visualization

I'm a data visualization specialist.

I make charts. And, help people look at their data.

Agenda

What is data visualization?

What do you notice?

Critique a data visualization & change a data visualization.

(more examples of data visualization)

"ask me anything" / Q&A

What do you notice?

Your choice!

the baby spike

energy usage in Texas during winter storm

covid variants in tracked in sewage

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#3: change a viz

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change it! link

Q&A???

Data visualization is about...

data

Data visualization is about...

data journalism

Data visualization is about...

making discoveries with data

Data visualization is about...

informing choices

Data visualization is about...

life and death

Data visualization is about...

graphic design

Data visualization is about...

interaction design

Data visualization is about...

Data-driven design

Data visualization is about...

Making sense of lots of data

Data visualization is about...

Making sense of lots and  lots of data

Data visualization is about...

relating information and events

Data visualization is about...

storytelling

The Fallen of WWII

Data visualization is about...

building with tools

Data visualization is about...

building with math & code

Data visualization is about...

understanding algorithms

Data visualization is about...

drawing with math

Data visualization is about...

visual perception

Data visualization is about...

explanations

Data visualization is about...

simulations

Data visualization is about...

learning about people

Data visualization is about...

being playful

Data visualization is about...

being impactful

Periscopic

Data visualization is about...

changing how we experience data

xkcd

Data visualization is about...

interpreting statistical methods

Data visualization is about...

asking questions of data

Data visualization is about...

changing our perspective

Washington Post

Data visualization is about...

seeing something familiar in a different context

Data visualization is about...

Beauty

source

Data visualization is about...

Reflection & Connection

Data visualization is about...

Revealing underlying patterns

number of births

Data visualization is about...

figuring out what matters

number of births

Data visualization is about...

Discoveries &cutting edge research

Text

a long time ago                   &                                   now                     

Data visualization is about...

making us feel something

visualizing the racial divide

Data visualization is about...

influencing decisions

Florence Nightingale's Mortality of the British army: at home and abroad, and during the Russian war, as compared with the mortality of the civil population in England

Data visualization is ...

Inherently interdisciplinary

and

collaborative