The document discusses different types of data visualization including infographics, visual thinking, information design, and creative visualization. It notes that visualization helps make complex data more accessible and helps communicate ideas visually. Reasons for the increasing importance of visualization include the proliferation of open data, big data, and visualization tools. Examples are provided of visualizations that tell stories with data from different sources in an engaging manner.

1. visualisation
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Kate da
vis
kateda
vis.info
@katieda
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2. data
visualisation
infographics
Visual
thinking
Information
design
Creative
visualisation

3. data
visualisation
infographics
Visual
thinking
Information
design

4. commonality

5. Sense-make communicate
Unra
vel
complexity
clarify
Make
accessible

6. How?

7. We’re wired for visualisation
blog.visual.l
y/why-is-data-visualization-so-hot/

8. Common language

9. Why now?

10. drowning,
not wa
ving
Open data
Big data
Proliferation
of tools

11. visualisation

12. communicate
data
visuall
y

13. Bringing
together
data
From different
sources

15. 20th century death. Information is beautiful
informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/20th-century-death/

16. 200 countries, 200 years, 4 minutes

17. infographics

18. communicate
stories
visuall
y

19. Infogfraphics:
stories
include
visualisations

20. video
images
interactive

21. The digital lives of american mums. Nielsen
nielsen.com/us/en/newswire/2012/digital-lives-of-american-moms.html

22. 13 reasons why your brain cra
ves infographics

23. Information design

24. Visual thinking

25. Our thoughts
are like this
Or ma
ybe this
And we try to
make them
look like this

26. DOG

27. Sense-make
In pictures

31. communicate
ideas
In pictures

32. sketchnotes
diagrams
Mind maps
infographics
Visualisations

33. Creative visualisation

35. Just kidding!
bit.ly/valavis
Kate da
vis
Katedavis.inf
o
katiedavis

36. Just kidding!
bit.ly/valavis
Kate da
vis
Information studies group @ qut
Katedavis.inf
o
Katiedavis
K3.davis@qut.edu.au