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Week 12: Style Guide
Mini Task 3
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Week 11: Screen Usage
Mini Task 1 Mini Task 2
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Week 10: Create a Dashboard
What Gender spends the most Time on certain Activities? Do university students conform to gender stereotypes with time spent on activities? This visualisation shows the average hours per day females and males spend on different activities. This data was gathered from 59 university students over the course of one week, where they wrote down activities… Read more
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Week 8: Creating a Story from Data
What Suburb uses their Mobile Phone the Most? We’re always told to get off our mobile phone, but which suburb uses their phone the most? The following data was gathered over the course of one week by 59 university students, recording their activities every half hour. The heat map was created with Tableau to visualise… Read more
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Some useful Links for Data Visualisation
Flowing Data Flowing Data includes many interactive and engaging data visualisations. Many of the visualisations posted are really creative in their design and cover many topics. DataArt DataArt is a project that uses data from BBC to create beautiful visualisations in creative ways. The visualisations cover current news and world events. Information is Beautiful Information… Read more
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About
About Me Hi! My name is Carissa and I’m a third year design student. I made this blog to capture my journey as I learn about data visualisation. I’ve been inspired to pursue design for a long time, with my main interests being in art and science in high school. I hope one day to… Read more
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Visualising Data: Week 8
Art made of Storms Nathalie Miebach talks about how she translates data into sculptures and music. She gathers her data and uses basket weaving to place values on different points of the basket. She then translates the data onto a musical score, where the piece can then be viewed, as well as performed by an… Read more
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A Day in the Life of Americans
What story does it tell? A day in the life of Americans shows am average of how Americans are spending their time each day to the minute. How does it tell it? The visualisation uses time-based motion graphics to simulate what activities people are participating through the day. Activities are separated into categories. There are… Read more
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Visualising Data: Week 7
The Beauty of Data Visualisation Figures alone aren’t effective for comparing data. Visualising data allows us to see the difference between data in a visual way that would otherwise have less impact as plain text. Data visualisation allows us to see the patterns in data, and draw conclusions from it. Design is about solving problems… Read more
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Visualising Data: Week 6
Data Journalism What is data journalism? Data journalism uses gathered data to tell a story. It combines text with data, and allows it to be interactive. It creates stronger stories and allows the reader to process the data and visually see the facts and numbers of the story, rather than just the written words. The… Read more
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