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VISUALIZATION OF DATA
My mind map notes from #WIAD16Speaker was Troy Palanca
http://ph.linkedin.com/in/tjpalanca
What data is…Data needs
Design Designers
Need to have mindset to communicate it to others
What data is…Data
weirdJust like
your undergrad thesis
People not needing it
People are not obliged to read your work no matter how brilliant
it is
There was a disconnect between really good analysis vs. the
academia and research institutions
Standardized collection of
Stories
Meaning
How data is processed…Data
Standardized
collection of stories
Add context
How bad really is Kuliat Public School in relation to other public
schools?
Say, Schools
Rows Columns
How bad really is Kuliat Public School in relation to other public
schools?
How is it staffed?
No. of rooms
No. of students dropped
out
Stories of each
schoolBudget
per student
Say, Schools
Rows Columns
How bad really is Kuliat Public School in relation to other public
schools?
How is it staffed?
No. of rooms
No. of students dropped
out
Stories of each
schoolBudget
per student
How is it in relation to other populations?
Say, Schools
Rows Columns
How bad really is Kuliat Public School in relation to other public
schools?
Add more context to the story…
Another example,
Rows Columns
Condensing State of the Nation Addresses of Philippine
Presidents
.. … ….
How much
they talk about certain topics
Presidents
Looking at tweets,
Rows Columns
it reflects on how a business is run.
.. … ….
How much
they talk about certain topics
Presidents
Create interesting stories…
See the bigger picture instead of one the individual story
Looking at tweets,it reflects on how a business is run.
Create interesting stories…
See the bigger picture instead of one the individual story
Emotion polarity of tweets
Air Asia Cebu Pacific
PAL
5 steps to story telling…Define row/
protagonists
Define elements of
the storyCollect data Tell the
story Visualize
1 2 3 4 5
5 steps to story telling…
Define row/ protagonists
11 2 3 4 5
Schools Country
5 steps to story telling…
Define elements of the story.
21 2 3 4 5
What do you want to know of the protagonists?
5 steps to story telling…
Collect data
31 2 3 4 5
Define what you want to do
5 steps to story telling…
Tell the story
41 2 3 4 5
5 steps to story telling…
Visualize
51 2 3 4 5
Why need this?
Builds trust Keeps abstraction to a minimum
Facilitates info assessment
Beneficiaries vs.
Population of poor areas
Cognitive overload when reading a table
instead
Ways to analyze data…
Exploratory Descriptive Inferential/
Predictive
a b c
Ways to analyze data…
Exploratory Descriptive Inferential/
Predictive
a b c
Display all info available without
removing info
Leads to higher trust No bias Less control
Ways to analyze data…
Exploratory Descriptive Inferential/
Predictive
a b c
Processed to show subset of data
Less trust Processed to make it useful
Ways to analyze data…
Exploratory Descriptive Inferential/
Predictive
a b c
Lots of control to show audience
Making conclusions
Visualizing
Cartesian
Elements – deliberate design
Polar coordinat
es
Points
Columns
Bars
Coordinates
Geometries
Aesthetics
ColorSize
WidthShape
Mapped to a data value
Should represent something
If it’s not ‘mappable’, don’t map it.
We want as much information density as possibleBut we don’t want to put all the information there.
Visualize these…
Financial habits of Filipino household
Election data
Why do this?
Filipinos have problem with scale
Most organizations have small windows to get to
see what people are doing.
They do well in coordination but once it
increases in size, dysfunction settles in
Lacks trustLack of
common data/ info available
Bureaucracy Nationalism Patronage
politicsLittle kingdoms
Control