Data Visualization Give & Take

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I presented this talk as part of a Give & Take session through Common Grounds- a student consulting collaborative at the University of Minnesota. We were asked to give a 5-minute presentation on an area of interest, and I chose data visualization, which is a topic I've developed a new found interest in and appreciation for. In this talk I highlight some of the key considerations when crafting a message with data.

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Telling Stories with Numbers

Data Visualization = Message + Image

Do you need a

chart for that?

What’s your

message?

  2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Trees lost to Dutch Elm Disease -1,821 -2,877 -2,013 -1,732 -1,253 -1,224 -927

Other trees lost -2,118 -2,256 -2,258 -2,868 -2,332 -3,402 -2,702

Ash trees removed         -1,410 -818 -879

Planted 3,638 3,546 3,589 4,206 5,382 5,589 5,507

City Trees program (private property) 1,038 1,500 1,050 1,000 1,245 1,513 1,513

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Ranking

Part-to-Whole

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Distributions

City of Minneapolis

Stephen Few

Edward Tufte

PA 5920: Data visualization

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