Data Visualization
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[edit] About This Group
This group examines the practice of communicating data through graphical means. Members share clear and effective approaches to organizing and presenting information in a visual manner. The group leader is Jason Pasinetti (MAIS)
Data Visualization SNG UMOD Group
[edit] Topics
Proposed
- Predictions and Forecasting
- Geographic Maps
- Visual Workplace
- Visualizing Policy
- Visual Data Mining
- Using R
- Using Google Data Visualization API
- Using Processing and Processingjs
Discussed
- Descriptive Statistics about the University
- Networks and Connections
- Process Mapping
[edit] Announcements
Geographic Business Intelligence for Human and Social Services Webinar Thursday, October 8, 2009 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (PDT) More Information here https://webservices.itcs.umich.edu/mediawiki/Business%20Intelligence/index.php/Talk:Data_Visualization
[edit] Meetings
Upcoming
Past
- 03.03.2009 was our inaugural meeting. We did an introductions exercise that involved visualizing some data about our group. We discussed using small multiples.
[edit] Resources
Data Visualization tag in MTagger.
[edit] Reading list
[edit] Prophets
Edward Tufte is a well respect data visualization expert and author of four books on the subject. His first book, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, is considered one of the most important and influential text on the topic of data and information visualization.
Stephen Few is a well respected data visualization expert who has applied the principles of Tufte and others specifically to business problems. He has written two books on the subject. His book Information Dashboard Design is very influential among dashboard designers.
[edit] Practitioners
Ben Fry is the co-creator of Processing software package and author of the book Visualizing Data.
Many Eyes is an IBM research project dealing with collaborative data visualization.
- Martin Wattenberg is one of the creators of Many Eyes. He is also the creator of one of the first treemap applications, Map of the Market.
- Fernanda Viegas is one of the creators of Many Eyes.
- Here are the other talented people behind Many Eyes.
Juice Analytics is an analytics consulting company in Herndon, VA.
[edit] Tool Makers
Tableau Software is a best-in-class commercial visual analysis software package.
Processing is a free software package for sketching up interactive, dynamic information experiences.
- Processing.js is a version of processing that uses JavaScript and therefore does not require Flash or Java applets.
R is an open source statistical analysis and visualization package.
- Tables to Graphs is a project for demonstrating graphical alternatives to tables dealing with social science data.
Excel add-ins can ameliorate the often limited, but ubiquitous, graphing capabilities of Excel.
- Microcharts is a commercial add-in for MS Office and SSRS 2005 and SSRS 2008.
- Sparklines for Excel is a free template for Excel 2007 and add-in for Excel 2003
- NodeXL is a free Excel 2007 add-in for creating network diagrams.
- Excel Treemapper Add-in is a free Microsoft Excel add-in for making treemaps.
- Chart Tamer helps you design better charts by removing clutter from charts and focusing only on the charts that have been identified as the most useful in conveying information.
The Google Visualization API is a free visualization API offered by Google. It is built from the Trendanalyzer developed by the GapMinder project.