Data Visualisation

We have several staff interested in data visualisation and interaction with those vizualisations.

• Craig Anslow: Touch tables, software visualization, transportation visualization, environment visualization
• Simon McCallum: VR visualisation, game data visualisation, graphs and data representation in research
• Stuart Marshall: Information Visualization, Software Visualization
• Karsten Lundqvist: Representation of Educational data

Courses

• SWEN 422 - Human Computer Interaction (contains a module on data visualization)
• We run a data visualisation workshop for the Faculty of Engineering Research students. Postgraduate presentation on Data Visualisation 2022. See Evaluation sheet https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cpS804ckNbiznxKD6CSKTKg103E0Qq1wRFhoYsjix0s/edit?usp=sharing
• We have run a series of Data Visualization workshops at ResBaz 2019, 2018.

Resources

• R https://www.r-project.org/
• Python https://www.python.org/ :: https://github.com/python
• Gnuplot http://www.gnuplot.info/ :: https://github.com/gnuplot/gnuplot
• R Studio https://www.rstudio.com/ :: https://github.com/rstudio/cheatsheets
• D3 https://d3js.org/ :: https://github.com/d3/d3

Reading

• Good examples of reworking https://www.ft.com/content/3b59f690-d129-11e7-b781-794ce08b24dc
• Alan Smith https://digiday.com/uk/financial-times-guide-data-visualization/
• Public Data - Google https://www.google.com/publicdata/directory
• Gapminder https://www.gapminder.org/
• Strategies for Evaluating Information Visualization http://cvs.cs.umd.edu/~ben/papers/Shneiderman2006Strategies.pdf
• The Challenge of Information Visualization Evaluation http://triton.cc.gatech.edu/hci-seminar/uploads/1/The%20Challenge%20of%20Information%20Visualization%20Evaluation.pdf
• Statistics NZ https://www.stats.govt.nz/
• Statistics NZ - Guide to Visualisation StatsNZWhitePaperVisualisation.pdf
• Lists of bullet points to be remembered http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/55/Communicating%20Data%20Clearly%20Presentation.pdf
• Discussion of Pie charts https://www.act-on.com/blog/data-visualization-101/