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[Review] Data visualization

Data types

  • Nominal, ordinal, quantitative

Visual variables

  • Comparisons

(Source: Nathan Yau, Data points)

Data visualization patterns

(Source: Joel Laumans, An introduction to visualizing data)

Map visualizations (Geomapping)

Projections




(Source: Jason Davies)

Visual variables for spatial data

Examples

Dot map: A dot for every data point

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How to lie with a dot map

(Source: xkcd)

Choropleth map: Attribute uniformly distributed in region

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How to lie with a choropleth

(Source: Huffington Post)

Cartograms: Size of region scaled to attribute value

(Source: Shawn Allen, Cartograms with d3 & TopoJSON)

(Source: Maneesh Agrawala, D3 Introduction, Mike Bostock, D3 workshop)

Visualization tools

D3

MapBox