20+ Tools to Create Your Own Infographics A picture is worth a thousand words – based on this, infographics would carry hundreds of thousands of words, yet if you let a reader choose between a full-length 1000-word article and an infographic that needs a few scroll-downs, they’d probably prefer absorbing information straight from the infographic. What’s not to like? Colored charts and illustrations deliver connections better than tables and figures and as users spend time looking back and forth the full infographic, they stay on the site longer. Plus, readers who like what they see are more likely to share visual guides more than articles. While not everyone can make infographics from scratch, there are tools available on the Web that will help you create your very own infographics. Read Also: The Infographic Revolution: Where Do We Go From Here? What About Me? “What About Me?” Vizualize.me Vizualize.me allows you to create an online resume format that is beautiful, relevant and fun, all with just one click. Piktochart easel.ly
How to Become a Data Visualization Expert: A Recipe In my previous post last week I complained about the state of infovis blogging, arguing that there is not enough freely available quality material around for novices who want to learn, despite new websites and little business pop up every day. Especially, there is not much guidance for people who want to become visualization experts. So I thought, what if one is attracted by visualization and wants to start? Is there anything on the web that helps taking at least the first few steps? (Of course, I know there’s never one single right path. My recipe is simple: 1) Study a Lot 2) Steal 3) Criticize 4) Produce 5) Seek Discomfort Study a Lot Yes, I said “a lot”. Show Me the Numbers: Start from here. Read these books, take your time, reflect on their advice and techniques and be ready to refer back to them often. Steal Stealing can be good if done with the right attitude and intent. Papers from TOP conferences. One final notice. Criticize Produce Seek Discomfort
Datavisualization.ch Selected Tools 40 Essential Tools and Resources to Visualize Data One of the most frequent questions I get is, "What software do you use to visualize data?" A lot of people are excited to play with their data, but don't know how to go about doing it or even start. Here are the tools I use or have used and resources that I own or found helpful for data visualization – starting with organizing the data, to graphs and charts, and lastly, animation and interaction. Organizing the Data by sleepy sparrow Data are hardly ever in the format that you need them to be in. PHP was the first scripting language I learned that was well-suited for the Web, so I'm pretty comfortable with it. Python Most computer science types - at least the ones I've worked with - scoff at PHP and opt for Python mostly because Python code is often better structured (as a requirement) and has cooler server-side functions. MySQL When I have a lot of data - like on the magnitude of the tends to hundreds of thousands - I use PHP or Python to stick it in a MySQL database. Ah, good old R.
Going to Data Visualization School - World of Data With the never-ending expansion of online possibilities for quality learning, I got to the can’t-see-the-woods-for-trees phase quite a while ago and tend to forget about some of the high quality stuff out there. Hence, I wanted to get some sort of overview of the possibilities I needed to look into. That used to be an Evernote note. Aggregator I have only come across one aggregator of university level courses, and that is Class Central. Coursera have so many great courses that I can’t exactly say that I have checked them all. Data Visualization Alberto Cairo’s course “Introduction to Infographics and Data Visualization” from the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas is absolutely top class. Katy Börner at Indiana University will run a Information Visualization MOOC very soon (starts 22 January). Andy Kirk also travels the world with his one-day introductory training courses, so although it’s not an online course, it is quite global anyway. Visualization by Code Big Data
80 eventos big data de aquí a septiembre | BigData4Success En el blog whatsthebigdata me encontré ayer con este listado, que a primera vista impresiona: 80 eventos* nada menos! De ellos destacaría la Gartner Enterprise Information & Master Data Management Summit que va a celebrarse en tres continentes, así como la Big Data Week (aparece como a ser celebrada en Berlín, pero el año pasado se hizo en ciudades de todo el mundo) y el CDO Summit en Londres. Y de nuestro país se mencionan dos eventos que tendrán lugar en Barcelona, el 3 de abril y del 13 al 18 de julio. *(Actos o mítines, según la RAE. April ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, April 1-4, Glasgow, UK International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction, April 2-4, Washington DC Gartner Enterprise Information & Master Data Management Summit, April 2-4, Las Vegas, NV Day of Big Data and Statistics, April 3, Barcelona, Spain IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation, April 6-8, San Diego, CA May June July August September