Research Guides: Data Visualization: Home

Welcome

Data Visualization is a key tool to understanding patterns and behaviors of things and people in our world. They can help us explore our own habits.

Below is an example of a project where two people did so by sending each other postcards of their data visualizations built from their data. This postcard is showing the amount of doors that the data collector went through in a week with attributes like what type of door, where the door is, who opened it, etc.

Credit: Dear Data Project

What to expect from this guide:

If you want to:	Go here:
Learn about data types and variables	Data Overview
Know how to choose a chart	Which Visualization?
See different Data Visualizations through different software's	Example of Visualizations
Avoid common mistakes and considerations to make while creating visualizations	Tips of Visualizations
Use tutorials for creating different Data Visualizations in various software's	Software for Visualization
Explore overall resources for Data Visualization	Resources for Visualization

Inspirational Videos

Publisher: Somerset House

This video shows Project Dear Data in which two friends collected data for a week, made it into a data visualization on a postcard and sent them to each other. They did this for a year.

Publisher: TED-Ed

Speaker: David McCandless is the founder of Information is Beautiful, a website showing intriguing graphs.

Shows many data visualizations in many different fields
Points out how what data you choose can change the story
Talks about his own journey which led him to be a data designer

Publisher: TED

Speaker: Ted Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden's Karolinska Institute. He is also the founder of Gapminder a visualization tool of worldly data.

Shows world statistics from the resource Gapminder
Explores interesting datasets using interactive graphs
Provides a story and context to the data he shows