Slides from SXSW 2015 session on the intersection of data and design:
http://schedule.sxsw.com/2015/events/event_IAP41090
By Trina Chiasson from https://infoactive.co
Harnessing the Power of GenAI for BI and Reporting.pptx
Data Design: Where Math and Art Collide
1. DATA + DESIGN
where math and art collide
Trina Chiasson, Infoactive | @trinachi | infoactive.co/data-design
2. This year, I did something new.
I worked with 80+ volunteer
contributors to write a
300-page ebook.
3.
4. How do you write an
open source ebook?
It started with a message…
5. Hi Trina! Stats dork from Chicago here…
Do you have any plans to include tutorials
for basic data cleaning and data selection
techniques for users who may not have
any statistics background?
— Dyanna Gregory
6. This is what most statistics textbooks look like.
Most designers say…
29. Don’t underestimate the
awesomeness of strangers
on the internet.*
* Especially strangers who volunteer to
write books about data in their free time.
30. In six months,
we wrote and released the
English version.
Data + Design is now being
translated in Chinese, Russian,
Spanish, and French.
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34. Is it true that
dataviz people
hate pie charts?
43. A table is nearly always better than a dumb pie chart;
the only worse design than a pie chart is several of them,
for then the viewer is asked to compare quantities located
in spatial disarray both within and between charts […]
Given their low density and failure to
order numbers along a visual dimension,
pie charts should never be used.
Edward Tufte, "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information”
64. Finding boundaries in color vs. shapes
Adapted from: Healey, Christopher G., Kellogg S. Booth, and James T. Ennis. “High-Speed Visual Estimation Using
Preattentive Processing.” ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 3.2 (1996): 4.