Course: Generative Design
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/
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/
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 – opendata.cern.ch
more http://www.visualisingdata.com/references/
APIs
https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/
Tools
Tableau Public, Free DataVis Application https://public.tableau.com/s/
Cytoscape, OpenSource Network Visualisation Tools – http://www.cytoscape.org/
Google Fusion Tables https://www.google.com/fusiontables/
Web DataVis
Infogr.am (create online charts…) https://infogr.am/
https://datawrapper.de/
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/
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
https://github.com/MuseumofModernArt/collection
GENERAL
BLOGS
http://www.fastcodesign.com/section/infographic-of-the-day
Fails & Fun http://viz.wtf/
Data Physicalisation
Quantified Self
http://reporter-app.com
http://your.flowingdata.com/ Capture your life in data. One tweet at a time