Workshop slides from the Eighth International Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Conference (EBLIP8). Kudos to artists at The Noun Project (thenounproject.com) for the awesome icons. Thanks to Olivia Ward, a student in one of my classes, who agreed to me including her persona poster from IAB260 Social Technologies as an example in this presentation. There are a whole bunch of related resources on my website at http://katedavis.info/visualising-the-evidence-at-eblip8/

1. visualising the evidence
kate davis | @katiedavis | qut

2. data visualisation infographics visual thinkinginformation design

5. communicatesense-make make accessibleunravel complexity clarify

7. i’m not a visual person

8. i don’t have a creative
bone in my body

9. we’re wired for visualisation
blog.visual.ly/why-is-data-visualization-so-hot/

12. proliferation of toolsdrowning, not waving big dataopen data

13. visualisation

14. communicate data visually

15. bringing together data from different sources

17. 20th century death. Information is beautiful
informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/20th-century-death/

18. 200 countries, 200 years, 4 minutes

19. infographics

20. communicate stories visually

21. infographics are stories that incorporate visualisations

22. video image interactive

23. the digital lives of american mums. nielsen nielsen.com/us/en/newswire/2012/digital-lives-of-american-moms.html

24. 13 reasons why your brain craves infographics

25. 16 useless infographics
theguardian.com/news/datablog/gallery/2013/aug/01/16-useless-infographics

26. 76%
of the extreme poor
live in rural areas
16 useless infographics
theguardian.com/news/datablog/gallery/2013/aug/01/16-useless-infographics

27. 16 useless infographics
theguardian.com/news/datablog/gallery/2013/aug/01/16-useless-infographics

28. information
design

29. visual
thinking

30. our thoughts are like
this
or maybe like this and we try to make
them like this

31. DOG

32. sense-make in pictures

33. communicate ideas in pictures

37. infographicssketchnotes mind mapsdiagrams visualisations

38. infographics

39. examples

46. tools

47. free & easy infographic tools
piktochart
visua.ly
infogr.am
visme
canva
easel.ly

48. diy design
you’ll need:
powerpoint / keynote
maybe photoshop
sources for icons
fonts

49. most useful thing you’ll
learn about today:
the noun project

50. katedavis.info
slides, resource
& tool lists,
useful reading

51. process & play

52. good infographics
start with
good data
good analysis
a good story
good information design
visual impact

53. 1. organise your data
find, sort, organise data
go to original sources
organise references

54. 2. find your story
what is it you want to say?
then pull out the data
that tells your story

55. example story
tell me a story about undergrad
IT students’ use of facebook
find 4 insights in the data

56. 3. plan
work out dimensions
create a (very rough)
wireframe

57. activity
how will you represent your
4 insights?

58. 4. design
how can you best
represent the data?
graphs? numbers? images?

59. activity
how will you represent your
4 insights?

60. 4. design
consider:
size, typography, colour,
shapes, images, layout

61. activity
design it!

62. activity
share

63. activity
homework: send it to me
kate.davis@qut.edu.au

64. thank you!
katedavis.info
kate davis | @katiedavis | qut