visualisation: vala 2014 l plate session

visualisation Vala 2014 l plate session

Kate davis

katedavis.info

@katiedavis

data visualisation

infographics Visual thinking

Information design

Creative visualisation

data visualisation

infographics Visual thinking

Information design

commonality

communicate Sense-make Make accessible

Unravel complexity

clarify

How?

We’re wired for visualisation

blog.visual.ly/why-is-data-visualization-so-hot/

Common language

Why now?

Proliferation of tools

drowning, not waving

Big data Open data

visualisation

communicate data visually

Bringing together

From different sources

data

20th century death. Information is beautiful informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/20th-century-death/

200 countries, 200 years, 4 minutes

infographics

visually communicate stories

include visualisations

stories Infogfraphics:

images video interactive

The digital lives of american mums. Nielsen nielsen.com/us/en/newswire/2012/digital-lives-of-american-moms.html

13 reasons why your brain craves infographics

Information design

Visual thinking

Our thoughts are like this

Or maybe this And we try to make them

look like this

DOG

In pictures Sense-make

In pictures communicate ideas

infographics sketchnotes Mind maps diagrams Visualisations

Creative visualisation

Kate davis Katedavis.info katiedavis

Just kidding!

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Kate davis Information studies group @ qut

Katedavis.info

Katiedavis

K3.davis@qut.edu.au

bit.ly/valavis

Just kidding!