Information Visualization

Links

• Wealth and Health of the World

  Exercise: Choose new axes and find an interesting tidbit to share with the class

• Flowing Data
  • Growth of Walmart
  • Bars vs. Grocery Stores
• Google Charts

Exercise

You are going to create an interesting visualization.

• To start: spend 5-10 minutes looking through Google Charts to familiarize yourself with what's available.
• Next: Decide what kind of data you want to visualize. It might be data that comes from multiple sources. Think about the format - is it time series? Categorical? Geographic? Numeric? Are you comparing two different series? This will inform what kind of visualizations to show and what data to get. Take 5-10 minutes
• Then, get the data! Write code, download CSVs or spreadsheets, transform it into a format that will work in Google Charts. This will require some creativity and resourcefulness, which you should have mastered by this point in the class! Use JSFiddle to test your code and data. Create a web page with the HTML, CSS, and Javascript it provides (hint: In your HTML document, all a script tag, paste in everything from the Javascript box, and then end the script tag). 20-30 minutes
• Examine your visualization and find some interesting facts to present to the class. Drop your working HTML file in the BOX folder. 10 minutes
• I will load up each visualization on screen. Describe some interesting things that you found.