Tag: data visualisation

Silk

Silk is a really simple tool for creating visual stories. Text, images, video and audio can be included, and templates are provided for building interactive graphs and other data visualisations. Quick and easy. It’s used by The Guardian and New York magazine.

Humorous and clever use of Silk: Women in Film: A Data Analysis of 1500 Movies on Bechdel Test Criteria

https://www.silk.co/home

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Tableau Public

Statistics showing Mayweather and Pacquaio's individual form before the big match in May. Hovering over different parts of the graphic prompts boxes to open that show stats for individual fights. Author: Dan Nguyen. (Click on the pic for a detailed interactive view.)
Statistics showing Mayweather and Pacquaio’s individual form before the big match in May. Hovering over different parts of the graphic prompts boxes to open that show stats for individual fights. Author: Dan Nguyen. (Click on the pic to go to the original for a detailed interactive view.)

Free software that turns data into visual stories.

https://public.tableau.com/s/

More examples of interactives built using Tableau:
Dan Nguyen’s gallery
Tableau gallery

 

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Timeline JS

Built using Timeline JS, 'A History of Ghana', from backtoghana.com
Built using Timeline JS, ‘A History of Ghana’, from backtoghana.com

An open-source tool for building interactive timelines.

Media from a variety of sources can be used with built-in support for Twitter, Flickr, Google Maps, YouTube, Vimeo, Vine, Dailymotion, Wikipedia, SoundCloud and more.

Tips & tricks

  1. Keep it short, and write each event as a part of a larger narrative.
  2. Pick stories that have a strong chronological narrative. It does not work well for stories that need to jump around in the timeline.
  3. Include events that build up to major occurrences — not just the major events.

(From ‘How It Works’ at http://timeline.knightlab.com/)

Some examples using Timeline JS:
Al Jazeera – Timeline: Egypt in Turmoil
Time – Nelson Mandela’s Extraordinary Life: An Interactive Timeline

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David McCandless’s Information Is Beautiful

Who Likes Whom in the Middle East, interactive info graphic by David McCandless.
Who Likes Whom in the Middle East, interactive info graphic by David McCandless.

Independent data journalist and information designer David McCandless says his passion is presenting information with a minimum of words.

His site is worth exploring for its adventurous ideas, and the beauty of some of the designs. He emphasises the importance of ‘juicy data’ – in other words, data that’s absolutely accurate. And, he adds, 80 per cent of the work that goes into a great graphic is gathering the data, organising it and checking.

In one or two of the visualisations beautiful design acts to confuse the information a little, I think. But where he gets the balance right he gets it really right.

An interesting one to start with is Who Likes Whom in the Middle East, a visualised network of the complex relationships between the different players in a highly volatile region.

From journalism.co.uk – some of McCandless’s tips for using visual data.

You can find more interactives here. And follow McCandless on Twitter here.

 

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