This was a session I did for a reatil event hosted by Javelin consulting (http://www.javelingroup.com/)

1. DataVisualisation:
Big Data’s Best Friend
Andy Cotgreave (@acotgreave)
Social Content Manager
Tableau

2. DataVisualisation:
Big Data’s Best Friend
Andy Cotgreave (@acotgreave)
Visual AnalyticsTrainer,
Tableau

4. Our agenda

5. 1. Data visualisation
isn’t new

6. Data visualisation is not new.

7. 2.What is the value of
data visualisation?

8. Consider these numbers…
Property Value
Mean of x 9
Variance of x 11
Mean of y 7.5 (to 2 dp)
Variance of y 4.122 (to 3 dp)
Correlation 0.816 (3dp)
Linear regression y=3+.5x (3dp)

9. Consider these numbers…
Blue Orange
Green Red

10. 3. Don’t fool your eyes!

11. The human visual system
Eye Brain
From the Texas School for the Blind andVisually Impaired

12. Change blindness

13. The answer…

14. Grey screen: explain
importance of
Change Blindness

16. http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/colours-in-cultures/
What colour do Asians
associate with Purity?

18. 4. Exploit the strengths
of your visual system

19. From the Texas School for the Blind andVisually Impaired

27. 5. Engage with value
not candy

29. http://graphics-info.blogspot.hk/2012/09/malofiej-20-look-at-our-participation.html (Simon Scarr)

30. 6.What’s your message?

31. http://graphics-info.blogspot.hk/2012/09/malofiej-20-look-at-our-participation.html

32. http://graphics-info.blogspot.hk/2012/09/malofiej-20-look-at-our-participation.html
Iraq: Deaths on the decline

33. Let’s see all of this in
action

34. DataVisualisation:
Big Data’s Best Friend