Visualizing DataSeminar Four: Professor Donna Gitter

Amanda Faviaamanda.favia@macaulay.cuny.eduInstructional Technology Fellow, Macaulay Honors College at Baruch

What is Data?

Numbers

Dates

Statistics Demographics

Age Gender Ethnicity

What is Data?

Information from Interviews Names Dates Survey Questions & Answers

Photos from your Neighborhood Location, address Buildings

Collecting Data: Primary Source

Your ResearchNeighborhood ObservationsCommunity Board MeetingNotes: questions and answer Interviews

Collecting Data: Secondary Sources

Other’s ResearchPublished StudiesArticlesDemographics: Census Data, etc.

City Data Infoshare NYC Open Accessible Space Information System NYC Neighborhood Statistics

Visualizing Data

What does it mean to ‘visualize’ data?

Why bother ‘visualizing’ data?

Visualizing Data

Charts & Tables

Graphs

Flow Charts

King’s County*

916,856 households are occupied and 83,437 are vacant

*Source: ITF Emily Sherwood

King’s County*

916,856 households are occupied and 83,437 are vacant

*Source: ITF Emily Sherwood

King’s County*

916,856 households are occupied and 83,437 are vacant

*Source: ITF Emily Sherwood

Visualizing Data

Maps

Timelines

Infographics

Maps*

*Source: http://www.google.com/earth/outreach/tutorials/custommaps.html

Maps*

*Source: http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/de2012/2012/03/29/economic-and-educational-effects-of-hispanic-immigration-in-queens/

Timeline*

*Source: http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/jacksonsights/history/timeline/

Infographics*

*Source: http://ivancash.com/Infographic-of-Infographics

Visualizing Data: Tools

ExcelCharts, Graphs, Tables, Flow Charts

DipityInteractive Timelines

Visualizing Data: Tools

Google Custom MapsInteractive Maps

Social ExplorerDemographic Maps

Visualizing Data: Tools

Infographics

http://www.easel.ly/http://infogr.am/http://visual.ly/http://piktochart.com/

Visualizing Data: Tools

Which tools should you use to visualize your data?

Thank you!