noah iliinsky web app masters tour preview
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Steps to Beautiful Visualizations
(sneak preview)
UIE Web App Master’s TourSpring, 2011Noah Iliinsky
Visualization allows access to huge amounts of data
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w
Visualization for presentation, when you do have a story to tell
https://www.msu.edu/~howardp/softdrinks.pdf
Visualization for analysis, when you don’t (yet) have a story to tell
http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/gallery/taleof100
How to do it: Use a format that fits the data
http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/president/whos-ahead/key-states/map.html
West - East
North - South
Axes give you information for free!
(in two different ways)
Consistent, highly differentiable encodings
Painfully wrong!
http://www.digitalsurgeons.com/facebook-vs-twitter-infographic/
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