Data Visualization

Tarek Amr@gr33ndata

One SlideshowIntroduction

What is Data Visualization?The main goal of data visualization is its ability to visualize data, communicating information

clearly and effectively, Vitaly FriedmanOR "What Is Data Visualization", visually explained, http://ffctn.com/whatisdataviz

Visual.ly: What are the elements that make up an infographic?Visualizations that present complex information quickly and clearlyVisualizations that integrate words and graphics to reveal information, patterns or trendsVisualizations that are easier to understand than words aloneVisualizations that are beautiful and engaging

ToolsInfogr.am is the simplest way to create infographics.

http://infogr.am/

We’re building a tool that will allow everyone to quickly and easily create professional quality designs with their own data. And when you’re ready to show your work to the world, publish it on your Visual.ly profile, your own personal showcase.http://visual.ly/

Gephi is an interactive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs.http://gephi.org/

Data CollectionGoogle Docs in Elections ResultsCollaboration

Examples

The Egyptian Political Spectrum (Just Sketch, not even parties, GIMP)http://www.tarekamr.com/2011/08/egyptian-political-spectrum.html

Political Parties Map made by Arabist (Parties added)http://www.arabist.net/storage/uploads/Map%20of%20EG%20Political%20Parties%2012.11.2011.pdf

Egypt Parliamentary Elections ResultsDone by Paul Van Slembrouck (@ptvan)I work with startups to turn data into beautiful and simple infographics, visualizations, interactive applications, and presentations. I have a business degree from the University of Michiganhttp://visual.ly/egypt-parliamentary-elections, http://www.paulvanslembrouck.com/2012/test-3/

Morsi vs Shafik (Clustered Governorates)Morsi's campaign has produced an electoral map showing results.http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/middle-east-live/2012/jun/18/egypt-election-muslim-brotherhood-claims-victory-live

Tool used: results-gadget.js By Michael Geary, http://mg.to/, http://dr-morsy.appspot.com/results/results-map.html

The Egyptian Uprising According to Twitterhttp://visual.ly/egyptian-uprising-according-twitter, http://blog.hootsuite.com/egypt/

Data Lifecycle

Different Data SourcesData acquisition is the process of sampling signals that measure real world physical conditions and converting the resulting samples into digital numeric values that can be manipulated by a computer.Parties Agents, Indipendant Monitoring, TV, Social Media, etc.

Collaborative Data Collection and AnalysisGoogle Documents was used as a platform for different users to collaborate in entering data, validating and doing simple summation on such data

Data VisualizationData was turned into visual maps (Michael Geary's Results Gadget) or Infographs (Paul Van Slembrouck Infograph)

Links

Analyzing the Top 30 Infographics on Visually, http://www.paulvanslembrouck.com/2012/analyzing-top-30-viral/

10 Awesome Data Visualization Tools for the Web, http://digitalanalog.in/2012/05/15/10-awesome-data-visualization-tools-for-the-web/

What is Data Visualization?

The main goal of data visualization is its ability to visualize data, communicating information clearly and effectively, Vitaly Friedman

What are the elements that make up an Infographic?

• Visualizations that … opresent complex information quickly and

clearlyo integrate words and graphics to reveal

information, patterns or trendsoare easier to understand than words aloneoare beautiful and engaging

Source: Visual.ly

The Egyptian Political Spectrum

Map of Egyptian Political Parties

Jacopo Carbonari, The Arabist

Seats Won by Parties, Lower House

The Egyptian Presidential Elections

Morsi vs ShafikPublish on Morsi’s site. Done using Michael

Geary’s results-gadget.js

Morsi's percentagesDone by Eric Schewe, American PhD

student in History living in Egypt

Morsi Meter

http://www.morsimeter.com/Data Visualization can be as simple as a progress bar!

DataViz Lifecycle

• Different Data Sources: Data acquisition is the process of sampling signals that measure real world physical conditions and converting the resulting samples into digital numeric values that can be manipulated by a computer.– Parties Agents, – Independent Monitoring– TV– Social Media– Etc.

DataViz Lifecycle

• Collaborative Data Collection and Analysis:Google Documents was used as a platform for different users to collaborate in entering data, validating and doing simple summation on such data

DataViz Lifecycle

• Data Visualization:Data was turned into visual maps (Michael Geary's Results Gadget) or Infographs (Paul Van Slembrouck Infograph)

Tools• Infogr.am is the simplest way to create infographics,

http://infogr.am/

• Visual.ly is a tool that will allow everyone to quickly and easily create professional quality designs with their own data. And when you’re ready to show your work to the world, publish it on your Visual.ly profile, your own personal showcase, http://visual.ly/

• Gephi is an interactive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs, http://gephi.org/