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Course: Mapping the Data

Assignment

Resources

 

Leonhard Lass
oel@depart.at
+43 699 11474726

 

Assignment

Create a Data Visualisation / UI

(almost) everything (great) is allowed that involves a data mapping

  • Interactive Data Visualisations
  • Artworks / Installations that map data to sensory parameters
  • „Classic“ efficient Data Visualisation with a clear goal and communication
  • Tangible Data Sculptures
  • Interfaces that implement a form of data visualisation for information retrieval

not too keen on

  • random data beautifications
  • excel visualisations
  • overly illustrative infographics

 

 

Resources

Huge Collection of Resources, categorised http://www.visualisingdata.com/resources/

Practical Material, Theory and Guides

“Points of View” Series from “Nature Methods” about many topics dealing with effective scientific visualisation http://blogs.nature.com/methagora/2013/07/data-visualization-points-of-view.html

http://datajournalismhandbook.org/1.0/en/

Data Sources

offene Daten Österreichs https://www.data.gv.at/
Open Data Portal Österreich https://www.opendataportal.at/

eurostat,  high quality statistics on Europe: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database
UN Data (34 databases – 60 million records): http://data.un.org/Explorer.aspx
CIA World Fact Book: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
US Gov Open Data http://www.data.gov/
Worldbank, free and open access to data about development in countries around the globe. http://data.worldbank.org/
Google public data explorer: https://www.google.com/publicdata
Google Trends: https://www.google.com/trends
Public Fusion Tables: https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/2573812?hl=en&ref_topic=2592765
Happy Planet Index, Data: http://www.happyplanetindex.org/data/
MoMA Public Data of 120,000 Artworks https://github.com/MuseumofModernArt/collection
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/interfaces
Discogs http://data.discogs.com/

Real-time and historical data about every reported covert United States drone strike http://dronestre.am/
Statistic Brain, http://www.statisticbrain.com/
The Atlas of economic Complexity, Data http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/about/data/sitc4/
http://www.internetworldstats.com/ (no direct data download)
CAIDA Data – Internet Traffic – https://www.caida.org/data/overview/
CERN LHC Data – http://opendata.cern.ch

MoMA Artworks Data as csv https://github.com/MuseumofModernArt/collection

more http://www.visualisingdata.com/references/

APIs

https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/

Tools

Tableau Public, Free DataVis Application https://public.tableau.com/s/
Google Fusion Tables https://www.google.com/fusiontables/
Cytoscape, OpenSource Network Visualisation Tools – http://www.cytoscape.org/
Gephi, Open Source Tool for all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs. https://gephi.github.io/

Web DataVis 

Infogr.am (create online charts…) https://infogr.am/
open source tool to create simple, correct and embeddable charts https://datawrapper.de/
chartlr https://chartlr.com/
dataseed https://getdataseed.com/
interactive data visualizations https://filtergraph.com/
Palladio is a web-based platform for the visualization of complex, multi-dimensional data.  http://palladio.designhumanities.org/#/

 

Web DataVis Coding

D3 is a JavaScript library for visualizing data with HTML, SVG, and CSS. http://d3js.org/
Leaflet — an open-source JavaScript library for interactive maps http://leafletjs.com/
 
Google Chart Tools (Interactive charts for browsers and mobile devices). https://developers.google.com/chart/

R 

R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics https://www.r-project.org

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Processing

https://processing.org/
MMapper – A processing sketch for rendering location and activity data from the Moves iPhone or Android app. https://github.com/feltron/MMapper
Correlations Lib for node networks (P2 only) http://www.muehlseife.de/correlations-library
Grafica Library for basic graphs, http://jagracar.com/grafica.php

GENERAL

http://www.infovis-wiki.net/

BLOGS

http://www.fastcodesign.com/section/infographic-of-the-day
Fails & Fun http://viz.wtf/
Coding Related Blog (R, MongoDB, Excel, d3,…) http://www.joyofdata.de/

 

Data Physicalisation

http://dataphys.org/list/

Quantified Self

http://quantifiedself.com/

http://reporter-app.com
http://your.flowingdata.com/ Capture your life in data. One tweet at a time

Peabrain is a completely private journal that you update via SMS. http://peabrain.co/

Data Cleaning

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Top-ten-ways-to-clean-your-data-a64879eb-115f-4e3d-a3bf-9cfc08a0a4e3#__toc265595282