The tute this week about data visualisation was very interesting, but looked quite complected. Data visualisations are representations of abstracts, they are non physical information. Data can be large or small, when dealing with big numbers the idea of chunking information is one way of making this work. Different elements of information can be shown and highlighted by color, shape, scale, position and movement. Some of the links that were shown to us in the tute, were very detailed. I was surprised some of the lengths people would go to to record different types of data around the world for many different topics. Gapminder.org was one that was huge, from topics ranging from the life span of different cultures to trade, aid and investment, it pretty much gives you an endless amount of data from many different countries around the world, through different times past and present, Quite amazing. Wefeelfine.org was my pick of the lot, its lay out and display of information was fantastic, locating thoughts and feelings from all over the web. After this tute, i decided that data visualisation was something pretty cool to look at but not really to participate in, so with that said i am going to select to make a video instead.
Week 11 ‘Data Visualisation’
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