Poor Visualizations Cause More Harm Than You Think. What’s the worst that could happen? I know that we’re all guilty of asking ourselves that question. However, when it comes to data visualization, one that’s less-than-ideal could have far greater negative ramifications than you may think. “When visualization is done poorly, it can often read as propaganda,” says Visually’s Visualization Architect, Drew Skau in a recent article from the Visually Blog. One of the goals of an organization is to establish a bond between the visualizer and the viewer. For example, how about we look at and use General Electric’s How We Drive visualization as a case study.
Let’s turn our attention to just one more example. Now ask yourself did these visualizations give you an accurate depiction of the data? Data visualization is an extremely powerful tool. Image Source: www.iStockphoto.com Related. Turning Data into Narrative -- 2012 MIT-Knight Civic Media Conferenceon knightfoundation. Arts Dev - Caroline Beavon Introduction. Box-office : les chiffres du cinéma en France [datavisualization]
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This, says FSB, is a lie that demonstrates the “pretence” that “‘crunching the numbers’ is somehow an an abstract, scientific, mathematical task”. There are two problems with this: the first is that I’ve never heard a data journalist make this claim; and the second is that the ‘lie’ does not come from a data journalist (they generally don’t write headlines). It is, in short, a straw man. The story itself is, however, perfectly valid. It’s fair to say that those who are economically inactive should not be included in unemployment figures. “Youth unemployment figures are always slightly odd, and as with many things in life, it’s students that get the blame.
But again, this proves nothing about the ‘pretence’ of data journalism. That is exactly what The Guardian have done. Like this: Like Loading... Gpvis. Freelance Job - Data Research - Freelance Work Project. Google Releases API for Cool Visualization of Data Mashups from. A recently released Google Labs product called Fusion Tables allowed users to grab data from spreadsheets, text documents, PDFs and other sources and create compelling, comprehensive visualizations from a merged data set.
Google has just announced it's releasing an API for Fusion Tables. The API integrates with Google Maps, App Engine, Base Data and Visualizations APIs, as well, to allow for motion charts, timelines, graphs and maps with all the data available and running on Google's infrastructure. The API allows users to upload data from any source, from text files to full databases, and see their data merged and compared in cool visualizations. Surprisingly, that's not even the best part.
Perhaps best of all, for active, dynamic datasets, Fusion Tables is programmatically updated and accessed, so new information is accessible without requiring an admin login to the Fusion Tables site. The Fusion Tables API also allows for queries and downloads. Interactive charts online!