VISUALIZATION OF INFORMATION

Michael Adcock

WHO AM I?

AGENDA

WHY VISUALIZE INFORMATION?

Why Visualize?

understanding discussion

Why? Understanding!

Why? Understanding!

Quote from Karl Fast during IA Summit 2014

“Design for Understanding” workshop

Why? Understanding!

“…the most difficult mental act of all is to re-arrange a familiar bundle of data, to look at it differently and escape from the prevailing doctrine.”

-- Professor H. Butterfield

Why? Discussion!

“Allow the information to tell you how it wants to be displayed. As architecture is ‘frozen music’, information architecture is ‘frozen conversation’. Any good conversation is based on understanding.”

-- Richard Saul Wurman

DATA MODELS

Data Models

Data Models & Formats

Data Models: Tabular (spreadsheet)

Data Models: Relational (database)

Data Models: Hierarchical (markup)

Data Models: RDF (triples)

Data Models: Tradeoffs

TOOLS

Tools or Toolbox?

Tools for Understanding

Adapted from Abby Covert’s “Make Sense: Information Architecture for Everybody”

Tools: Notepad++

Tools: Notepad++

Tools: Open Refine (Google Refine)

Tools: Open Refine (Google Refine)

Tools: Open Refine (Help!)

Tools: Using OpenRefine

Tools: TiddlyWiki

Tools: TiddlyWiki

Tools: TiddlyWiki (Help!)

Tools: TiddlyWiki Example (Thesaurus)

Tools: TiddlyWiki Example (Thesaurus)

Tools: TiddlyWiki Example (RTA Migration Tool)

Tools: TiddlyWiki Example (RTA Migration Tool)

Tools: TiddlyWiki Example (RTA Migration Tool)

Tools: TiddlyWiki Example (RTA Migration Tool)

Tools: TiddlyWiki Example (RTA Migration Tool)

Under the hood:

Tools: TiddlyWiki Example (RTA Migration Tool)

Tools: TiddlyWiki Example (RTA Migration Tool)

Tools: Gephi

Tools: Gephi Example (RightNow Support Center)

Tools: Gephi Example (RightNow Support Center)

Tools: Gource

Tools: Gource Example (RightNow Support Center)

Tools: D3

Tools: D3 Galleries

Tools: D3 Example (Venn Diagram)

Tools: RAW

Tools: Datawrapper

Tools: DataWrangler

Tools: yEd

Tools: yEd Example (Training Prep)

Tools: Finding more…

EXAMPLES

INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE?

Information Architecture?

Information Architecture?

RESOURCES

Resources: Online Tutorials

• Using charts in Excel– http://

office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/charts-i-how-to-create-a-chart-RZ001105505.aspx

• Data Visualization Fundamentals– http://

www.lynda.com/Design-Infographics-tutorials/Data-Visualization-Fundamentals/153776-2.html?srchtrk=index:1%0Alinktypeid:2%0Aq:gephi%0Apage:1%0As:relevance%0Asa:true%0Aproducttypeid:2

• Using D3– http://

www.lynda.com/D3js-tutorials/Data-Visualization-D3js/162449-2.html?srchtrk=index:1%0Alinktypeid:2%0Aq:data%2Bvisualization%0Apage:1%0As:relevance%0Asa:true%0Aproducttypeid:2

Resources: Tools

• Notepad++– http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

• OpenRefine– http://openrefine.org/index.html– http://googlerefine.blogspot.com/

• TiddlyWiki– http://classic.tiddlywiki.com/– http://tiddlywiki.com/– http://www.giffmex.org/tw5mall.htm

• Gephi– https://gephi.org– https://marketplace.gephi.org/plugin/gexf-js-web-viewer/

• Gource– https://code.google.com/p/gource/

Resources: Tools

• D3– http://d3js.org/– http://christopheviau.com/d3list/gallery.html

• RAW– http://raw.densitydesign.org/

• Datawrapper– https://datawrapper.de/

• DataWrangler– http://vis.stanford.edu/wrangler/

• yEd– http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html

• alternativeTo– http://alternativeto.net/

Resources: Books

• Linked Data for Libraries, Archives, and Museums– http://book.freeyourmetadata.org/

• Using OpenRefine – http://openrefine.org/2013/11/05/using_openrefine.html

• How to Make Sense of Any Mess– http://abbytheia.com/makesense/– http://

www.slideshare.net/AbbyCovert/how-to-make-sense-of-any-mess

THANKS!