1. Luca Giuliano
Barcamp:
Data Visualization
Dipartimento di Scienze statistiche

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Hans Rosling Special Guest Speaker in Palestinian Territories WSD
4 October 2010 -- Swedish Professor Hans Rosling has been a pioneer in
using information technology to popularize international statistics among
the general public. He will be a special guest speaker at an event
organized by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) to
celebrate World Statistics Day. Prof. Rosling is expected to show the
power of statistics through data visualization, with his popular animations
converting complex statistics into moving bubbles that reveal clear global
trends.
http://www.gapminder.org/

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Asia’s rise, how and when
• 1858
• 2007

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Population growth

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Data Visualization - Wikipedia
Data visualization is the study of the visual representation of data, meaning "information
which has been abstracted in some schematic form, including attributes or variables for the
units of information” (M. Friendly, 2009).

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The Travel and Adventure of Data Visualization
http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/
c. 6200 BC - Catal Hyuk (Anatolia) – Museum of Konya (Turkey)
c. 550 BC
Ramon Llull (1235-1326)

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Proto-bar graph (of a theoretical function) …..
three hundred years before…
René Descartes
(1596-1650)
1350 – Nicole Oresme (Lisieux)

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First visual representation of statistical data
Mortality Table (London 1662)
1644 : variations in determination of longitude between Toledo
and Rome — Michael F. van Langren (1598–1675)
1662

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1779 - First semi-graphic display combining tabular and graphical formats
(analysis of periodic variation in soil temperature)
Johann Heinrich Lambert , Germany
1786 Line graph of economic data — National debt
1801 Invention of the pie chart
William Playfair (1759–1823),
England

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1855 - Use of a dot map to display
epidemiological data, leads to discovery of the
source of a cholera epidemic
— John Snow (1813–1858 ), England
1897 – Le Suicide – Étude de sociologie
— Emile Durkheim (1858–1917)

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Twitter’s Data Visualization

12. Twitter: statistic / complexity / uncertainty
Barcamp: Data Visualization

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Twitter: statistica
Barcamp: Data Visualization

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Twitter: World Statistics Day
Barcamp: Data Visualization

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Twitter: la_statistica
Barcamp: Data Visualization

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Amazon.com / books / title: typographic book search
Barcamp: Data Visualization

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Population density per square mile (2.6 km)
Barcamp: Data Visualization

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Population
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/cartograms/
Barcamp: Data Visualization
http://www.worldmapper.org/

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Energy consumption (including oil)
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/cartograms/
Barcamp: Data Visualization
http://www.worldmapper.org/

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Taxedo – Statistics (Wikipedia)
Barcamp: Data Visualization
Hardy Leung: http://www.tagxedo.com/app.html