Top 10 iconic visualizations

FastCoLabs invited several reputable bloggers to answer their most iconic visualizations and their reasons. The three invited speakers were Robert Kosara of Eager Eyes, Andy Kirk of Visualising Data, and National Public Radio Data Editing http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/10961.html"> Matt Stiles. Let's take a look at the "iconic" aspects of the visualization they've chosen.

The top three works are Wind Map, Gapminder and Flow Streamgraph, all of which are mentioned in our PPT course, and I am sure everyone is familiar with it.

Wind Map is an interactive, real-time wind farm visualization that updates data hourly and allows users to zoom in to finer resolution with double-tap to see a fantastic wind farm. Visualization is not always visible data visualization. Andy Kirk commented on the piece "This is an awe-inspiring portrait of the wind, a visualization that can be an analytical tool when the United States is hit hard by a hurricane in 2012. So it's not just about the wind Artistic expression, but also a very practical tool for people to learn and discuss the wind. "

GapMinder is another familiar visualization, thanks to Hans Rosling, the Swiss statistician who is almost the most famous speaker at TED. With his vivid narrative ability, GapMinder tells us one after another World population, education, health story. What can be more convincing than the story told by the data? GapMinder answers the history, current situation and trend of world development with a simple dynamic scatter plot. Robert Kosara commented on the work as "Hans Rosling visualizes the data that makes the data look and feel fun and without knowing how well his performance and GapMinder's ability to present data with a simple chart, does anyone know that the original data is not only Can it be used for analysis, more for presentation, for messaging? "Remember the blog post of our previous" Visual 8 Caps "? On the TED, Hans Rosling is a great Communicator , He is perfectly able to tell the customer (that is, the audience) the story behind the data.

The Ebb and Flow Streamgraph is an interactive cinema box office visualization released in 2008 by The New York Times. It presents in a very beautiful stream the box office where all movies from 1986 to 2008 are released. Users can search for a particular movie, find out when it's released, and at the box office, compare it with other films over the same period, and also explore lately which months of the year are the movie's hot and cold seasons, and which years of the movie industry vigorous. This can be said to be a catalog of movie history, but presented in such a pleasing way. This work won the 2009 Malofiej Best Visualization Award.

Paths to the White House is yet another interactive visualization that demonstrates the other possibilities for the 2012 US presidential election. The result of a geographical analysis of the ballot results is overwhelmingly characterized by the fact that it uses a decision tree to analyze if the outcome of a big state victory by either Obama or Romney will be overwritten. The works represented the victory of Obama in blue, the victory of Romney in red, and the importance of the state in a population-weighted measure from the top of the decision tree. From the figure to see the blue end of the road much more than the red, in fact, Obama has the absolute advantage to win this victory. During the election period, this visualization project received unprecedented attention.

Death and Taxes is an infographic that shows the budget of more than 500 departments and projects in the U.S. federal government. The amount of information covered is breathtaking. From 2004 to the present, Bachman, the designer of the year, releases the latest budget information map, and the "2014" infographic is released by Time Plots.

Gay rights vary from state to state in the United States. In order to clearly state which state is a gay paradise or hell, the Guardian did an interactive visualization of Gay Rights, State by State, which won this year's data story Award-winning data-driven narrative award. Works in different colors represent different rights such as marriage, education, employment, etc. This single figure is enough to explain many situations. Most of the northeastern region is a gay paradise while homosexuals living in the southeastern part of China have a hard life.

Bikini Chart is actually a bar chart, released by the Obama team in 2012, to compare the employment rate after Obama took office and the Bush administration improved. The reason why the folk dubbed Bikini figure is naturally because of its shape, which is also an important reason for the popular picture, who do not like Tucao it? Because the expression of the citizens lost their jobs (recorded as negative), so the bar Multiply designed below the reference coordinates. The rise of unemployment from the Bush administration has led to more and more joblessness and an improvement in the unemployment rate of the Obama administration when it came to power. This situation has shaped the entire bar chart into a bikini-like shape.

A Peek Into Netflix Queues, also from the New York Times visual work (big brands trusted), lists NetFlex's most popular movie and TV series in 2009 and shows in various cities. Some film and television in different cities have very different acceptance. However, it is yet to be discovered by the users themselves as to why some films are more popular in some cities and no further analysis is given in the works.

Why Is Her PayCheck Smaller? This work expresses the same job with different pay for men and women. The work is very simple, just adding some standard lines to the scatter chart of the profession, different colors represent different industries. However, these standard lines play an important role in the visualization of the user's reading and the meaning they really want to convey, allowing the user to visually contrast one side and the other side of the standard line. First of all, the standard line of income for men and women is undoubtedly the most important, alas, it seems really or man treatment is relatively high ah. Do not come down again, women pay less 10%, 20%, 30% of the standard line, it appears that women in the financial sector are subject to discrimination ah ...

The last one, How Common is Your Birthday?, Is a simple infographic showing the most common U.S. date of birth with heat. Births in July and September are the most common, and the words back and forth are pregnancy one to two months before and after Christmas. reasonable. Do not know if our country will also form a small holiday, the Spring Festival is similar to the pattern?

After reading all of the above excellent visualization works, you will find that none of them is from the dissertation. The reason I think the biggest reason is that because of the need to pursue innovation, the essay adds a lot of burdensome things that increase users' reading burden. Secondly, the academic circles are more in pursuit of universality and the way in which data news designers only convey news attitude on a specific data Different from the academic circles more hope to create a suitable type of data or a field of data is not only visualization, but also a deep visual analysis of the work, the so-called "mission." And most of the above works are very self-explanatory, the user himself groping for a minute or two to know what it means and can spontaneously explore the visualization further to find out what interests him. A good visual work to pursue, but so. However, half out of the position and half from the heart, I still think there is a very good academic visualization works, such as CodeSwam visualization of the code development process, as well as the plot of the automatic visualization tools Storyline so.