Luca Giuliano

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Data Visualization

Dipartimento di Scienze statistiche

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Hans Rosling Special Guest Speaker in Palestinian Territories WSD

4 October 2010 -- Swedish Professor Hans Rosling has been a pioneer in

using information technology to popularize international statistics among

the general public. He will be a special guest speaker at an event

organized by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) to

celebrate World Statistics Day. Prof. Rosling is expected to show the

power of statistics through data visualization, with his popular animations

converting complex statistics into moving bubbles that reveal clear global

trends.

http://www.gapminder.org/

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Asia’s rise, how and when

• 1858

• 2007

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Population growth

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Data Visualization - Wikipedia

Data visualization is the study of the visual representation of data, meaning "information

which has been abstracted in some schematic form, including attributes or variables for the

units of information” (M. Friendly, 2009).

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The Travel and Adventure of Data Visualization

http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/

c. 6200 BC - Catal Hyuk (Anatolia) – Museum of Konya (Turkey)

c. 550 BC

Ramon Llull (1235-1326)

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Proto-bar graph (of a theoretical function) …..

three hundred years before…

René Descartes (1596-1650)

1350 – Nicole Oresme (Lisieux)

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First visual representation of statistical data

Mortality Table (London 1662)

1644 : variations in determination of longitude between Toledo

and Rome — Michael F. van Langren (1598–1675)

1662

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1779 - First semi-graphic display combining tabular and graphical formats

(analysis of periodic variation in soil temperature)

Johann Heinrich Lambert , Germany

1786 Line graph of economic data — National debt

1801 Invention of the pie chart

William Playfair (1759–1823),

England

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1855 - Use of a dot map to display

epidemiological data, leads to discovery of the

source of a cholera epidemic

— John Snow (1813–1858 ), England

1897 – Le Suicide – Étude de sociologie

— Emile Durkheim (1858–1917)

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Twitter’s Data Visualization

Twitter: statistic / complexity / uncertainty

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Twitter: statistica

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Twitter: World Statistics Day

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Twitter: la_statistica

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Amazon.com / books / title: typographic book search

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Population density per square mile (2.6 km)

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Population

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/cartograms/

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http://www.worldmapper.org/

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Energy consumption (including oil)

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/cartograms/

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http://www.worldmapper.org/

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Taxedo – Statistics (Wikipedia)

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Hardy Leung: http://www.tagxedo.com/app.html