The connotation of
data visualization is not just a chart that only professionals can understand. When you want to publicize and prove yourself through data, the problem you encounter is that most people cannot understand your chart. So it is particularly important to make the process of
data visualization more interesting and easy to understand.
How can data visualization be more easily accepted and understood by the general public, and even produce a WOW feeling? Below I try to illustrate through some specific data visualization cases.
U.S. Gun Deaths
"U.S. Gun Deaths" is a website for people who died in the United States from guns that appeared in previous articles. In this case, the gray color of each line represents how old a person can live, but because the gun died early, it is represented in orange before death. At first, it was just one or two lines to let the user explain the meaning of the line, and then the speed was suddenly increased. Several lines appeared together, and the color of each line was put together, thus intuitively showing that the middle and young people died because of the gun.
It is conceivable that if only a simple line chart is used to express, the touch to the viewer will not be as big as it is now, so it will not reach the meaning of reminding people to reflect on gun management.
The evolution of the network
"Evolution of the Internet" is a website launched by Google to illustrate the interaction between Internet technology and browsers, making our network more and more powerful. The first color ribbon represents a network technology. You can see that the browser has different effects on the technology at different times. Especially after the addition of mobile phone Safari and Chrome, the network technology has become more and more powerful and complex.
In this website, the horizontal timeline scrolls, the technical ribbons fly up and down, and the version lines of several major browsers run through the audience, which is beyond the performance of general charts. If this method is not used, we may not know the importance of browser development to network technology.
Listen to Wikipedia
"Listen to Wikipedia" is a visual and audio display site for Wikipedia's recently updated data. Use sound to add or delete words, and different tones represent different amounts of editing. The green circle indicates that unregistered contributors are editing, and the purple circle indicates that the automatic robot is editing. All users will produce some small noise, and each editor will have a special sound.
The use of sound to display data is the highlight of this site. By listening to these sounds here, you will no longer feel lonely when you contribute to Wikipedia. It can also attract new contributors to participate in the editing work.
The Evolution of Music Taste
"The Evolution of Music Taste" is a website that reflects the changes of the five most popular songs in Europe and America from 1958 to 2016. Add the dynamic changes of the singer list to the traditional line chart. As the list changes, the first song will also change. The user listens to the sound of music, recalls an old song, and then listens to a new song, and has a deeper understanding of the relationship between music and time changes.
The change of the list is a simple matter, but the TOP1 music is added as a background, and changes accordingly over time. Then it is very interesting and even more impressive.
Migration in the Census and in the News
"Migration in the Census and in the News" is the website of Oxford Immigration Observatory in order to display the data of British immigration in 2011. The data here is extracted from relevant news. The significance of doing this is that they want to express their support for balanced discussions on immigration.
The performance of the data is very intuitive, rather than letting people see the cold numbers that are heard. At the beginning of the animation, you can see that about 7 million immigrants came to the UK from different countries. Then use dynamic dots to show the situation of immigration data in various parts of the UK.
The Refugee Project
"The Refugee Project" is a website that explains refugee issues, showing the time and place of refugees, and the complex political, economic, and social stories behind them. By integrating the historical background into the data changes of immigrants, the impact of each crisis on human life is expressed.
Through the initial data changes, we can find that the refugee data actually went up. The data fell only from 2000 to 2006, which shows that the world is not quite flat. By clicking, we can find that some people even crossed half of the earth for refuge.
Commonwealth War Dead: First World War Visualised
"Commonwealth War Dead: First World War Visualised" depicts data on the number of British war dead during the First World War. Try to visualize the cruelty of war.
Long horizontal scrolling, while browsing, we can see that as the war progresses, the number of deaths is increasing, let us not forget the history.
Histography
"Histography" is an interactive timetable spanning 14 billion years of history, from the Big Bang to 2017. The site extracts historical events from Wikipedia and automatic updates every day and records new events. The user can choose to watch various events that occur within a certain period of time.
Unlike the general timeline representation, this page uses a lot of small squares to represent events, and represents the events of a certain period of time by stacking in the vertical dimension. And when the page is zoomed, the dynamic changes of the small square points are also very interesting.
Shipmap.org
"Shipmap.org" is a map based on all commercial shipping since 2012. The purpose is to show users the huge scale of modern commercial shipping, the routes of giant ships around the world, the geographical distribution of different types of cargo ships and their production. Carbon dioxide.
This website shows all ships, and can also move with time. Dynamically shows that the movement of one or two ships cannot. It is difficult to show all the movements of ships. There are also content introductions with background music and explanatory tours of the map.
Notabilia
"Notabilia" analyzes and visualizes the discussion of controversial entries in Wikipedia. The longest 100 discussions are shown here.
The ideas are presented here in the form of trees. When the user suggests keeping, merging, or redirecting the entry, a green line inclined to the left is added. When the user proposes to delete the entry, a red line inclined to the right is added. As the discussion progresses, the length and angle of the lines will gradually decay.
The Network Behind the Cosmic Web
"The Network Behind the Cosmic Web" uses data from more than 24,000 galaxies to construct multiple models of the cosmic network, providing a complex blueprint for galaxy fusion.
Using 3D interactive visualization can help us better imagine the universe network, more convenient to show the differences between the models, let us deeply understand the basic structure of the universe.
Through the above case analysis, we can see that these cases will first have a theme, around which the data will be purified, rather than listing all relevant data for users to find answers. The last is how to make the data display more lively and more interactive.
