For "Trends in Communication and Information Technology," JOUR 4871-003, fall 2012, CU-Boulder

1. Data visualization:
Storytelling with numbers
Trends in Communication & Information Technology
JOUR 4871-003

2. My era: Data as afterthought or sidebar

3. USA Today heightened the data viz game for news
First print edition: 1982
SNAPSHOTS: Early adopter of
Infographic-style data visualization

4. With the web, interactive data graphics

5. Real-time Sandy flood gauge: WNYC Data News Team
Allowed Data in
people to real time
see exactly pulled from
how high river and
the New coastline
York City flood gauge
rivers were sensors
in real (public
time. data).

6. Tell a data story exclusively with charts and graphics

7. Data-viz tools more sophisticated, easy to use
Data revealing reported sightings of Bigfoot in
the US between 1955 to 2011
Windows only, currently
Expensive software
"We wanted to make it easy
for anyone to ask questions
of complex data."
"So we built a database-
visualization language where
someone with little spare
time and no expertise can
create real-time data
graphics."
—Christian Chabot, CEO
DEMO

8. Dozens of FREE data visualization tools
(Click chart to go to complete webpage)

9. Want to try it? ...
http://www.dataviz.org/
OR
http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/
manyeyes/page/create_visualization.html