DMAW Digital Day Forum Follow-ups

I just want to say thank you for everyone who attended my sessions at the DMAW Digital Day Forum today.

Here’s a summary of some of the things we talked about:

• A good data visualization shows the big picture, but let’s you also see the small details.
• A good infographic helps to make simple a complicated concept.
• A good data visualization asks users to find themselves within the visualization.

Here are some of the tools I talked about:

• D3.js – A JavaScript Framework that allows you to create data visualizations.
• Tableau – Business Intelligence Software that does some great visualizations.
• Piktochart –  A neat little online tool that lets you make your own infographics.

Here are the visualizations we looked at:

• US Gun Deaths, 2013: Periscopic
• What is Cerebral Palsy
• At Top Colleges, an Admissions Gaps for Minorities: New York Times
• Police Shootings: Washington Post
• Homicides In the District: Washington Post
• Life Expectancy: Flowing Data

Some fun with Visualizations:

• PolicyViz
• Viz.WTF – The name says it all.
• FlowingData