PROJECTS STORYTELLING INFOGRAPHICS

ISSUES MARKETPLACE

TECHNIQUES

TECHNOLOGY 2014 & BEYOND

DATA VISUALISATION AND INFOGRAPHIC DESIGN: ‘STATE OF THE UNION’

Andy Kirk @visualisingdata

Slightly moody 22 year old worship artist from Nashville, TN Journeyman Northern Irish footballer coming to the end of his career

Renowned jazz saxophonist and bandleader Self-proclaimed data visualisation specialist

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INTRO You decide which one is me…

PROJECTS

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=0

PROJECTS Dialect Quiz Map | New York Times

http://guns.periscopic.com/

PROJECTS US Gun Murders | Periscopic

http://bklynr.com/block-by-block-brooklyns-past-and-present/

PROJECTS Brooklyn’s Past and Present | BKLYNR

http://labratrevenge.com/pdx/

PROJECTS The Age of a City | Justin Palmer

http://earth.nullschool.net/

PROJECTS Earth | Cameron Beccario

STORYTELLING

http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=tunnel-creek

STORYTELLING Snow Fall | New York Times

www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/07/21/silk-road/

STORYTELLING Riding the Silk Road | New York Times

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM

STORYTELLING Wealth Inequality in America | Politizane

INFOGRAPHICS

INFOGRAPHICS What are the Odds? | Sofya Yampolsky

http://visual.ly/what-are-odds

INFOGRAPHICS xkcd, Visual.ly

http://xkcd.com/1273/ | http://visual.ly/

INFOGRAPHICS Infographic Portfolio | Adolfo Arranz, SCMP

http://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1193675/remembering-kowloon-walled-city | http://lasombra.blogs.com/la_sombra_del_asno/2013/05/sichuans-earthquake.html

TECHNIQUES

http://www.accurat.it/

TECHNIQUES Accurat Studio for Corriere della Sera

http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/11/30/football-conferences/

TECHNIQUES History of NCAA Conferences | New York Times

http://work.interactivethings.com/nzz-swiss-maps/

TECHNIQUES Swiss Map Series | Interactive Things for NZZ

http://officeofjane.com/projects/eurozone/

TECHNIQUES Volatility in the Eurozone Crisis | Jane Pong, SCMP

http://viz.ged-project.de/ | http://www.visualisingdata.com/index.php/2013/12/in-praise-of-slopegraphs/

TECHNIQUES Small Multiples, Sankeys & Slope Graphs

TECHNOLOGY

http://www.visualisingdata.com/index.php/resources/

TECHNOLOGY 200+ Tools | Visualisingdata.com

TECHNOLOGY D3.js

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/11/02/us/politics/paths-to-the-white-house.html

http://raw.densitydesign.org/

TECHNOLOGY RAW | Density Design Lab

http://www.tableausoftware.com

TECHNOLOGY Tableau + R

http://melbourneurbanforestvisual.com.au/bigmap.html | https://www.mapbox.com/showcase/#dataviz

TECHNOLOGY CartoDB, Mapbox

ISSUES

http://helpmeviz.com/

ISSUES Constructive Criticism | HelpMeViz

http://moritz.stefaner.eu/projects/gender-balance/#RATIO/NUM | http://www.visualisingdata.com/index.php/2013/03/1578-responses-to-the-first-data-visualisation-census/

ISSUES Gender Balance?

http://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/2013-winners/

ISSUES Information is Beautiful Awards | Kantar

http://citysdk.waag.org/buildings/#52.3603,4.8978,12

ISSUES Attribution of Influence/Inspiration

MARKETPLACE

MARKETPLACE Visual.ly

http://venturebeat.com/2014/01/14/visually-raises-8-1m-to-flood-the-internet-with-even-more-infographics/

“Visually  said  it  grew  10  times  since  it  launched  its  project  center  last  year  and  has  paid  out  $2  million  to  its  network  of  100,000  designers.”  

MARKETPLACE Job Boards | Lynn Cherny & Flowing Data

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/data-vis-jobs | http://flowingdata.com/category/job-board/

MARKETPLACE Ecosystem

Thought-leading ‘illuminati’

Professional/Practitioner

Informed enthusiast

Casual enthusiast

Occasional everyone

Initiator Journalist Communicator Project

Manager

Design Cognitive Science

Computer Science

Data Science

MARKETPLACE Skills? The 8 Hats of Visualisation Design

http://www.visualisingdata.com/index.php/2012/06/article-the-8-hats-of-data-visualisation-design/

2014 & BEYOND

http://public.brighttalk.com/resource/core/19507/august_21_hype_cycle_fenn_lehong_29685.pdf

2014 & BEYOND View from the cycle of hype

http://www.datainnovation.org/2013/10/big-data-visualization-you-can-touch/ | http://www.visualisingdata.com/index.php/2013/11/3d-printing-capability-via-dataappeal-maps/

2014 & BEYOND Consumer Technology Advancements?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/local/dc-shot-spotter/ | www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/quiet/#/map/

2014 & BEYOND Multi-Sensory Representation

http://ciid.dk/education/portfolio/idp12/courses/data-visualisation/projects/tasty-tweets/ | http://blog.emoto2012.org/ | http://www.sensorymaps.com/maps_cities/edi_smell.html

2014 & BEYOND Multi-Sensory Representation

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/for-christie-perhaps-a-bridge-too-far/2014/01/09/2928e054-797a-11e3-af7f-13bf0e9965f6_graphic.html | http://blog.visual.ly/how-data-visualization-changed-the-way-we-experience-sailing/

2014 & BEYOND More ‘Design for Understanding’?

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3020923/how-the-red-cross-used-tweets-to-save-lives-during-hurricane-sandy

2014 & BEYOND More ‘Data for Action’?

“Even  a  lack  of  postings  can  tell  the  Red  Cross  something.  If  there  is  a  social  media  black  hole  in  a  certain  neighborhood,  that  probably  

means  the  area  needs  help.”  

PROJECTS STORYTELLING INFOGRAPHICS

ISSUES MARKETPLACE

TECHNIQUES

TECHNOLOGY 2014 & BEYOND

DATA VISUALISATION AND INFOGRAPHIC DESIGN: ‘STATE OF THE UNION’

Andy Kirk @visualisingdata