Matthias Shapiro talks at Ignite Salt Lake City on Effective Visualization of Data.
IGNITE is a venue where talks are presented on various topics limited to 5 minutes with 20 slides that are rotated automatically every 15 seconds.
Ignite was started in Seattle in 2006 by Brady Forrest and Bre Pettis. Since then 100s of 5 minute talks have been given across the world. There are thriving Ignite communities in Seattle, Portland, Paris, and NYC.
Visualizations can be used to make sense of massive amounts of data. As Matthias Shapiro says visualizations turn information into understanding. Designers use color, size, location, time, and networks to convey a message.
Visualizations can be used to make sense of massive amounts of data. As Matthias Shapiro says visualizations turn information into understanding. Designers use color, size, location, time, and networks to convey a message.
Matthias Shapiro shares his visualizations at Designer WPF and Veracity. Here are some links to visualizations from his talk:
Slide 11 (Color Visualization Example): Map of the Market – stock market visualization
Slide 13 (Location Visualization Example): Map of flights in the US in a 24 hour period. This actually uses color to indicate altitude (darker is higher, lighter is lower, but I didn’t have time to go into that in my talk.
Slide 15 (Network Visualization Example): My Facebook friends as graphed by Nexus Graphs
You can find the rest of the links on his blog.
