Tools and Strategies for Visualizing Data Data...There’s a strand of the data viz world that...
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Tools and Strategies for Visualizing Data
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Tools and Strategies for Visualizing Data
Would you rather read or see 1,000,000
data points?
www.wirify.com/
White space is a good thing
Keep things simple
Pick the right tool
There’s a strand of the data viz world
that argues that everything could be a
bar chart. That’s possibly true but also
possibly a world without joy.
Amanda Cox New York Times
Population by State
http://www.datavizcatalogue.com/
Tell the truth
Get to the point
Tell a story
Generic
Pick a color scheme
color.adobe.com
ILL, Database, Full Text, Holds, ILS, Index, Abstract, Serials, Boolean Searching, Citation, Record, MARC, etc.
Part of a whole
Just a number
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RAW
http://app.raw.densitydesign.org/