What kind of design ideas do you need to consider for Data Visualization? Come find out.

1. Dallas UX - 10 Minute Talks
Design for Data
Visualization
Adam Hill - @adamhill
Improver
Improving Enterprises
adam.hill@improvingenterprises.com

2. Storytelling
Your data tells a story.
Figure out what it is and tell it.
• What ______ is the best / worst?
• How has ______ changed over time?
• How are _____ different / related to each other?
• What ____ stands out from the rest?

3. Exploration Tools
❖ Analyzing
❖ Tableau (http://www.tableausoftware.com/)
❖ R (http://www.r-project.org/)
❖ Excel
❖ Google Spreadsheets
❖ Many Eyes (http://www-958.ibm.com/software/analytics/
manyeyes/)

4. Visual Cues
❖ Position
❖ Shape
❖ Color
❖ Direction
❖ Length
❖ Angle
❖ Volume
❖ Area

5. Coordinate Systems
❖ Cartesian
❖ Geographic
❖ Polar

6. Scale
❖ Linear
❖ Logarithmic
❖ Numeric
❖ Categories
❖ Temporal
❖ Ordinal

7. Building Visualization
❖ Building
❖ D3 - Web (http://d3js.org/)
❖ Gephi - Graph (https://gephi.org/)
❖ TileMill - Maps (https://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/)
❖ Processing - Interactive (http://processing.org/)

8. benfry.com & proccessing.org
Ben Fry
Co-author of Processing
IDE for developing interactive
visualizations

9. flowingdata.com
Nathan Yau
Books:
Visualize This!
Data Points
Flowing Data
Free and Subscription blog

10. gapminder.org
Hans Rosling
Gapminder:
Interactively Visualizing
World Data

11. infosthetics.com
InfoAesthetics Reblog of great visualizations
and infographics.

12. www.visualcomplexity.com
Visual Complexity
Website by Manuel Lima
Book by the same name
Focus on complex networks

13. –Edward Tufte
“There is no such thing as information overload.
There is only bad design”

14. Context
❖ Information related to your data that can be shown
implicitly or explicitly.