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HCID 2012 - Graham Dove
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Visualising Data Narratives
Graham Dove
e: graham.dove.1@city.ac.uk
t: @grahamdove
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Overview
• Why Visualise?
• Minard’s Map
• Mark Lombardi
• Personal Informatics
• Data Journalism
• Social Data Analysis
• My Own Research
• Discussion & Questions
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Why Visualise?
• Increasing amounts of data collected
• Data increasingly valuable
• Store cards, credit cards, oyster cards, mobile apps
and social media, smart energy meters
• Google multi-billion dollar company whose only real
product is our personal data
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Why Visualise?
• Open data movement encourages government to
release data publicly
• UK midata initiative aims to get companies to give
customers their personal data
• Innovative applications and services
• Proactive consumers
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Why Visualise?
• Not sufficient to simply collect and release data
• Tools should aid understanding
• Visualisation aids exploration and insight
• Algorithmic paternalism
• Google and Facebook personalisation
• US stock market flash crash May 2010
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Minard’s Map
Charles Minard tells the story of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia
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Mark Lombardi
George W Bush, Harken Energy and Jackson Stephens
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Personal Informatics
• Quantified Self
• Nike+ New York
• openpaths.cc
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Narrative Visualization
New York Times
Republican Primary
Voting Patterns
The Guardian’s visualisation of UK budget deficit
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Design Choices
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Gapminder & Storytelling
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Social Data Analysis
Tableau Public
Many Eyes
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Social Data Journalism
The combination of interactive
application and comment space
encourages users to find and
share insights
The Guardian’s interactive spending review app
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My Research
• Data visualization in design workshops
• Collaborative exploration to share perspectives and
domain knowledge
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My Research
• Insights are shared through sharing the experience
of gaining insight
• Recreating the Eureka or Aha moment
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My Research
• Case study with energy company investigating
attitudes to adopting smart home technology
• Industry notorious for a lack of trust and skepticism
of customers
• Workshops with representatives of the provider and
their customers
• Sharing perspectives using interactive visualization
tools
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Conclusion
• More data than ever is being collected and shared
• Visualization can help understanding and insight
• Effective tools can help us share our stories, see
things from others’ perspectives and design better
products and services
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Discussion & Questions
Graham Dove
e: graham.dove.1@city.ac.uk
t: @grahamdove