Talk:Lesson01

‘A Tour through the Visualization Zoo’ article from our per-readings shows amazing ways to visualize and present complex and multivariate data. Interestingly, I am able to relate the details given in this article with some really interesting & interactive graphs I had come across on nytimes.com. They have superbly presented the statistics for the ongoing presidential elections in USA. Some representation types which I could recognize directly were Choropleth Maps and Small Multiples. Most of the other visual representations could be combination of different visualization techniques.

Here are some links for your reference : http://www.nytimes.com/elections/2016/national-results-map http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/north-carolina http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/03/15/upshot/live-model-republican-primary-results.html

I felt that the article "Infovis and Statistical Graphics: Different Goals, Different Looks" is an excellent piece to emphasise the difference between these two seemingly alike graphical depictions but with vastly different goals. I now know how to differentiate between a pure attention-grabbing graphic and a well-developed data visualisation. Good statistical graphics are 1) Interactive (allows user to explore and make comparisons); 2) Integrated (makes data more accessible) and lastly 3) Insightful (improve comprehension and decision making).

As for videos, the 2 TEDx videos showed how the data visualisations could tell a story and they captured my attention, as it should.

One data visualisation which I found interesting and cool is the Norse Attack Map http://map.norsecorp.com/#/