visualising data
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Date: 14th November 2012TRANSCRIPT
Simple tools for visualising data
Dr Ian RowlandsUniversity Library
Visualising data
Some easy-to-use visualisation tools
• Find data patterns with Excel conditional formatting
• Map your data with OpenHeatMap
• Create infographics with Piktochart
• Animate our data with Google Motion Charts
• Visualise networks with VOSviewer
Some easy-to-use visualisation tools
• Find data patterns with Excel conditional formatting
• Map your data with OpenHeatMap
• Create infographics with Piktochart
• Animate our data with Google Motion Charts
• Visualise networks with VOSviewer
Some easy-to-use visualisation tools
• Find data patterns with Excel conditional formatting
• Map your data with OpenHeatMap
• Create infographics with Piktochart
• Animate our data with Google Motion Charts
• Visualise networks with VOSviewer
Some easy-to-use visualisation tools
• Find data patterns with Excel conditional formatting
• Map your data with OpenHeatMap
• Create infographics with Piktochart
• Visualise networks with VOSviewer
Find data patternswith Excel conditional formatting
Excel conditional formatting
• What you need
• A copy of Excel 2000 (Windows or Mac OS X)
• Some spreadsheet data (numbers, text, or both)
• Time to explore
• A colour printer, ideally
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Excel conditional formatting
• What you can do with it
• Identify duplicates or unique values
• Highlight cells according to rules you define (e.g. top 10%, above average)
• Add data bars to cells
• Add icon sets (e.g. traffic lights to show values above and below user-defined thresholds)
• ... essentially a tool to explore tabular data and to help you and your readers to pick out what really matters
Excel conditional formatting
Map your datawith OpenHeatMap
OpenHeatMap
• What you need
• A good internet connection and a browser
• OpenHeatMap is a free cloud application so you don’t need to download or install any other software: just upload your data onto their remote server
• No need to register or sign in
• Spreadsheet data where the first column contains a spatial reference (e.g. country names, UK councils, US zip codes) and the other columns contain numerical information that you want to project onto a map
Free
cloud
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OpenHeatMap
• What you can do with it
• Project any data that comprises a location and a number onto a zoomable map
• ... offers a more meaningful way to present spatial data
OpenHeatMap location plus data
• Data format
country wine production*
Italy 46,245
France 42,582
Spain 41,583
Germany 9,991
Romania 6,786
Portugal 5,620
*1,000 hectolitres in 2011/12
OpenHeatMap examples of locations supported
OpenHeatMap
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Create infographicswith Piktochart
Piktochart
• What you need
• A good internet connection and a browser
• A debit or credit card!
• Time and creativity
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Piktochart
• What you can do with it
• Create an infographic and tell a story using numbers
• Summarise and present a lot of complex information on a single sheet
• Design principles are already embedded in templates: you do not need to be a graphic artist!
• ... a great way to clear your head and really get to the nub of what you are trying to say (and impress)
Piktochart
Piktochart
Visualise networkswith VOSviewer
VOSviewer
• What you need
• Free software download at www.vosviewer.com
• Java 6 or higher must be installed
• Spreadsheet data, saved as .csv or .txt
• You can also import Web of Science records (remember to check the full cited records option and select .txt)
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VOSviewer
• What you can do with it
• Make the relationships between members of a network visible
• Import search results from the Web of Science and automatically generate maps of the literature
• Explore relationships between papers, journals, authors and institutions
• ... understand the structure of complex networks, revealing hidden relationships
Exporting from Web of Science
Journal co-citation
Journal co-citation
Author co-citation
VOSviewer