1. Tools & techniques
for working with
datasets
Tony Hirst
Dept of Communication and Systems
The Open University

2. Quick wins and
half-hour hacks

3. Building a
toolbox…

4. http://mashe.hawksey.info/2012/11/mining-and-openrefineing-jiscmail-a-look-at-oer-discuss/
/via Martin Hawksey/@mhawksey

8. “You can quickly create an online 3-D
visualisation (with Google Earth) of
these rare documents”

11. R-Studio

16. All at once
or
one at a time?

17. Macroscopes

20. @mediaczar
(Accession Plot)

24. Google Maps, 1884 edition?

26. Overview first,
zoom and filter,
then details-on-demand
From: The Eyes Have It:A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations

29. • X and Y (at a push, Z)
• Node size and colour
• (Node label size and colour)
• Edge thickness and colour
• (Edge label and colour)
• Node proximity/grouping
• Clustering
• Filtering and differential
application of the above

32. Group by  Hierarchy inside
(implied) containment

33. Treemap in R

34. Similarities
and
differences

40. Single page
app +
linkage

41. Templated data views

44. blog.ouseful.info
@psychemedia