This document summarizes a seminar on visualizing data presented by Professor Donna Gitter. It defines what data is, including numbers, dates, statistics, interviews, and photos. It discusses primary and secondary sources for collecting data and explains how to visualize data through charts, graphs, maps, timelines and infographics. Finally, it lists some tools for visualizing data, such as Excel, Dipity, Google Custom Maps, Social Explorer and infographic creation websites.

1. Visualizing Data
Seminar Four: Professor Donna Gitter
Amanda Favia
amanda.favia@macaulay.cuny.edu
Instructional Technology Fellow, Macaulay Honors College at Baruch

2. What is Data?
 Numbers
 Dates
 Statistics
 Demographics
 Age
 Gender
 Ethnicity

3. What is Data?
 Information from Interviews
 Names
 Dates
 Survey Questions & Answers
 Photos from your Neighborhood
 Location, address
 Buildings

4. Collecting Data:
Primary Source
Your Research
 Neighborhood Observations
 Community Board Meeting
 Notes: questions and answer
 Interviews

5. Collecting Data:
Secondary Sources
 Other’s Research
 Published Studies
 Articles
 Demographics: Census Data, etc.
 City Data
 Infoshare
 NYC Open Accessible Space Information System
 NYC Neighborhood Statistics

6. Visualizing Data
 What does it mean to ‘visualize’
data?
 Why bother ‘visualizing’ data?

7. Visualizing Data
Charts & Tables
Graphs
Flow Charts

8. King’s County*
 916,856 households are occupied and 83,437 are vacant
*Source: ITF Emily Sherwood

9. King’s County*
 916,856 households are occupied and 83,437 are vacant
*Source: ITF Emily Sherwood

10. King’s County*
 916,856 households are occupied and 83,437 are vacant
*Source: ITF Emily Sherwood

11. Visualizing Data
Maps
Timelines
Infographics

12. Maps*
*Source: http://www.google.com/earth/outreach/tutorials/custommaps.html

13. Maps*
*Source: http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/de2012/2012/03/29/economic-and-educational-effects-of-
hispanic-immigration-in-queens/

14. Timeline*
*Source: http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/jacksonsights/history/timeline/

15. Infographics*
*Source: http://ivancash.com/Infographic-of-Infographics

16. Visualizing Data: Tools
Excel
Charts, Graphs, Tables, Flow Charts
Dipity
Interactive Timelines

17. Visualizing Data: Tools
Google Custom Maps
Interactive Maps
Social Explorer
Demographic Maps

18. Visualizing Data: Tools
Infographics
http://www.easel.ly/
http://infogr.am/
http://visual.ly/
http://piktochart.com/

19. Visualizing Data: Tools
Which tools should you use to visualize
your data?

20. Thank you!