CLEVER°FRANKE — FITC — 22-02-’16
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THE FUTURE OF DATA
VISUALIZATION

What is data visualization?

My approach

PERSPECTIVEData Visualization+

CLEVER°FRANKE combines strategy, design and technology to
create data driven tools that drive change.
Who are we?
FOUNDED
IN 2008

THE FUTURE
So let’s start with the history!

Clay tablet with map of the Babylonian city of Nippur (ca. 1400 BC)

social
Cholera Map (1854)
John Snow

Statistical Atlas of the United States of America (1880)
Henry Gannett

Weather chart
1963

At any time Specific In summary Encourages actionInforms
±’90: TV weather forecast ’97 Website ’06 Radar image ’11 Personalised app ’14 Personalised alerts
Will it rain?
Current history

C°F weather charts:
visualizing weather data

OPEN
DATA

What’s needed to create
a data visualization?

ROUGH INGREDIENTS FOR DATA VISUALIZATION
Presentation
Platform
Data Visualization tool

ACQUIRE PARSE FILTER VISUALIZE ENRICH INTERACTANALYSE
based on Computational Information Design by Ben Fry
METHOD

ACQUIRE PARSE FILTER VISUALIZE ENRICH INTERACTANALYSE
based on Computational Information Design by Ben Fry
METHOD

Easy to use
Advanced
Data Design
Google Fusion Tables
TIBCO Spotfire
MagnaView
QlikView
Tableau (public)
Cytoscape
Mapbox
GeoCommons
CartoDB
QGIS
D3.js
threejs
Raphael
Processing 2
NodeBox
Open Refine
Excel / OpenOffice
Mr. Data Converter
DataWrangler
R-Project
Timeline
RAW
Quadrigram
Visage
Circos
Many Eyes
DataWrapper
SOFTWARE TOOLS FOR VISUALIZATION

TEAM
Source: Andy Kirk

Comparing quantitative and
categorical values
Charting hierarchical and
part-to-whole relationships
Plotting trends and changes
over time
Graphing connections and
multivariate relationships
Mapping spatial data
DIFFERENT CHART TYPES

Make decisions
Viewing data in context
Finding patterns
Understanding a story
Getting inspired
GOALS

THERE IS MORE
AND MORE DATA
COLLECTED…
WHICH IS
PROCESSED AND
ENRICHED
IN MORE WAYS
AND PRESENTED
AT MORE AND
MORE WAYS
AND STORE AT
MORE AND MORE
LOCATIONS…

The future of data visualization for
Governments

CASE:
Visualising Chicago’s mobility and
infrastructure towards a
prosperous future.
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WEBSITE » ANALYSIS, DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT

Excel Tableau QGIS Processing Illustrator After Effects

C°F

The future of data visualization in
health care

PHILIPS: VISION OF THE FUTURE

PROJECT ARA

OXFORD NANOPORE MINION

The future of data visualization in
agriculture

DACOM

GROVE LABS

Conclusion

The world is changing rapidly from
generalised overviews to targeted,
personalised, localised information
From macro to micro

How data visualisation evolves will be
determined by the way we can access data,
and how we process & present it.
Access & presentation

Data visualisation is a means to an end. As
we’ve seen in all the examples, data
visualisation is just a small element in
a larger ‘system’.
Means to an end

We must design for the whole
ecosystem in which data ‘lives’ and
creating awareness of the whole
system to users (data literacy).
Data literacy

Creators need to think about the balance
between giving the full insight or just
summarise information.
Challenge for designers

Data visualisation professionals must do everything they
can to guide users through complexity and contribute to
the understanding of people about the world around
them.
What data visualisation can do
EXCITING TIMES!

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