Post on 17-Jan-2015
description
Telling Stories with Numbers
Data Visualization = Message + Image
Do you need a
chart for that?
What’s your
message?
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Trees lost to Dutch Elm Disease -1,821 -2,877 -2,013 -1,732 -1,253 -1,224 -927
Other trees lost -2,118 -2,256 -2,258 -2,868 -2,332 -3,402 -2,702
Ash trees removed -1,410 -818 -879
Planted 3,638 3,546 3,589 4,206 5,382 5,589 5,507
City Trees program (private property) 1,038 1,500 1,050 1,000 1,245 1,513 1,513
Time Series
Ranking
Part-to-Whole
Deviations
Distributions
City of Minneapolis
Stephen Few
Edward Tufte
PA 5920: Data visualization