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I’m a huge believer that people can process information more quickly and more deeply when it is presented as a visual narrative. 80% of the brain is dedicated to visual processing….
One of the best examples of this is Gapminder -a data visualization tool used to highlight statistics about our world to promote the UN Millenium Development goals.
Contextualizing abstract data in this manner allows for an increased understanding of the World, possibly leading to insights and more informed decisions.
If you can get people to play with the information and see the impact, you can unlock even greater understanding:
Designers Jochen Winker and Stefan Kuzaj work with the visualization of data, and have been developing innovative models for absorbing complex information. Their latest work (you can see above) features methods for making information interactive, requiring users to engage with devices in order to fully unlock the value of the information at hand.
Some great examples:
- If there’s anything good that has come out of the financial crisis it’s the slew of high-quality graphics to help us understand what’s going on. Some visualizations attempt to explain it all while others focus on affected business. Others concentrate on how we have been affected. Some show those who are responsible. After you examine these 27 visualizations and infographics, no doubt you’ll have a pretty good idea about what’s going on.
- GOOD recently asked its readers to create an infographic that shows both the devastation of the recent Haiti earthquake along with aid efforts thus far
- the entire collection of GOOD’s infographics can be found here
- 7 Visualization Groups On Flickr
- Infographics & Data Visualisation (slideshare presentation)
- Jeffrey Veen – Designing our way through data
- We hear all about a rich web of data, but what can we learn from these trends to actually apply to our designs?
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Comment by Jye Smith February 26, 2010 @ 3:18 pmSO true. I learned art history buy taping a timeline of notecards in order on all wall of my apartment. I’m talking about… art created until present day. I made all As. This post is spot on. Thanks!
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Comment by dogingham February 26, 2010 @ 5:47 pmSuch an important lesson. You don’t teach someone how to paint a house by letting him sit in the bed of a pickup truck, you put the brush in his hand and tell him to paint next you. This is a wise post!
Comment by Promotional Products February 27, 2010 @ 4:11 amI have the pleasure to brief on our Data Visualization software “Trend Compass”.
TC is a new concept in viewing statistics and trends in an animated way by displaying 5 axis (X, Y, Time, Bubble size & Bubble color) instead of just the traditional X and Y axis. It could be used in analysis, research, presentation etc. In the banking sector, we have Deutsche Bank New York as our client.
This a link on weather data :
http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/aims/
This is a bank link to compare Deposits, Withdrawals and numbers of Customers for different branches over time ( all in 1 Chart) :
http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/bank-trx/
Misc Examples :
http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/airline/
http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/stockmarket1/
http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/tax/
http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/football/
http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/swinefludaily/
http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/flu/
http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/babyboomers/
http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/bank-trx/
http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/advertising/
This is a project we did with Princeton University on US unemployment :
http://www.epicsyst.com/main3.swf
A 3 minutes video presentation of above by Professor Alan Krueger Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and currently Chief Economist at the US Treasury using Trend Compass :
http://epicsyst.com/trendcompass/princeton.aspx?home=1
Latest financial links on the Central Bank of Egypt:
http://www.epicsyst.com/trendcompass/samples/Aggregate-balance-sheet/
http://www.epicsyst.com/trendcompass/samples/balance-sheet
http://www.epicsyst.com/trendcompass/samples/banks-deposits-by-maturity/
http://www.epicsyst.com/trendcompass/samples/egyptian-banks/
http://www.epicsyst.com/trendcompass/samples/currency-by-denomination/
I hope you could evaluate it and give me your comments. So many ideas are there.
You can download a trial version. It has a feature to export EXE,PPS,HTML and AVI files. The most impressive is the AVI since you can record Audio/Video for the charts you create.
http://epicsyst.com/trendcompass/FreeVersion/TrendCompassv1.2_DotNet.zip
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