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Art and Science of Data Visualization (Part 2)

Jim MacLennan
Last updated: 2010/11/15 at 3:24 PM
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Just a little more theory and background on Data Visualization, to eat up the rest of your weekend. Unlike the McCandless video, this video will take some time investment – but well worth it, if you want to charge your batteries on this topic.

(via Flowing Data) From earlier this year, Martin Wattenberg gives a talk on data and visualization. Some interesting points:

Just a little more theory and background on Data Visualization, to eat up the rest of your weekend. Unlike the McCandless video, this video will take some time investment – but well worth it, if you want to charge your batteries on this topic.

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Art and Science of Data Visualization

(via Flowing Data) From earlier this year, Martin Wattenberg gives a talk on data and visualization. Some interesting points:

  • Data visualizations work well with large data sets
  • Interesting insight comes from borrowing ideas from different knowledge areas
  • Visualizations and analysis can help text “data sets” just as much as numerical data sets

Plus, a really interesting injection of artistic sense and sensibility into the “science” of data analysis – breaking WIRED magazine covers into component colors wheels, and seeing editorial patterns following patterns. Wattenberg’s summation on this particular visualization technique:

… an interesting phenomenon – the idea that you can visualize color.

I know what he means, it just sounds like he’s struggling for words to express a concept that is simple to understand visually; sort of a mini-proof of the “picture tells a thousand words” idea that is the fundamental reason why well-done data visualizations are amazingly effective.

Presentation fans, take note: Wattenberg also provides multiple examples of effectively reinforcing a discussion point by doing really interesting visualizations with openly available tools on the internet. Makes me question my “firmly held belief” that presenting live software to a large group is a a recipe for disaster. This is one of my personal takeaways from the video – live interaction helps the audience better understand the insights that they can get when working with the data. A least it’s better than a room full of bobbleheads when the “drilldown” buzzword pops up.

By the way – the MITWorld site has a huge collection of deep-dive videos; more on data visualization and empirical analysis, of course, but on a wider range of topics as well.


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Jim MacLennan is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at IDEX Corporation, a Fortune 1000 manufacturer that sells highly engineered products in a variety of markets worldwide. MacLennan has responsibility for Corporate IT services for all IDEX business units, and also drives innovation through initiatives that leverage Information and Technology as growth drivers for the industrial manufacturing space. He regularly publishes his observations and insights on the intersection of business and technology - check out his work at www.cazh1.com.

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