Student Project

Monday, January 24, 2011

Week 4: Case Studies for Data Visualization

Comparative Geography (mountains + rivers), 1854.

Nathan Yau –Seeing your life in data:

“A story of charts and graphs might read a lot like a textbook; however, a story with context, relationship, interactions, patterns, and explanations reads like a novel.”

“We want to present the facts, but we also want to provide context, like the who, what, when, where, and why of the numbers. We are after emotion. Data often can be sterile, but only if we present it that way.”


Visualizing Urban Data, Michael Migurski'three guiding contexts:

Here vs. There, Now vs. Then and Small-Here vs. Big-Here.


10 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year – 2010

Horoscoped

A Visual Atudy of The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi
Meet iPad’s competitions (and other projects by sectiondesign.co.uk)

FUNCTION, Pixelated representation of the deaths in Iraq

Crime in San Francisco as elevations

Search Portland Oregon for visualization pieces
Portland + [blank] in the National News Media
Relative percentage of visitors to local news sites in Portland
WSM campaign, BikePortland coverage wordle

Must see - a former student Jacob who specializes in infographics just sent me this link to superb images of Victorian Infographics. You can also see more information from this post here. Thank you Jacob!


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