WHAT IS VISUALIZATION ?
Data visualization is the representation of data through use of common graphics, such as charts, plots, infographics, and even animations. These visual displays of information communicate complex data relationships and data-driven insights in a way that is easy to understand.
Visual discovery and every day data viz are more closely aligned with data teams. While visual discovery helps data analysts, data scientists, and other data professionals identify patterns and trends within a dataset, every day data viz supports the subsequent storytelling after a new insight has been found. Data visualization is a critical step in the data science process, helping teams and individuals convey data more effectively to colleagues and decision makers. However, it’s important to remember that it is a skillset that can and should extend beyond your core analytics team.
Examples of data visualization
1 – Cinema: Explaining a movie plot through data visualization
Inception is an American film, directed by Christopher Nolan and released in 2010, that focuses on the themes of dreams and reality. The movie’s hero, Cobb, is an “extractor”, an agent that can enter someone’s dreams and learn their secrets, who collaborates with others on industrial espionage missions.
This simple, colorful, and interactive data visualization offers a detailed explanation of the film’s complex plot.(Warning, spoilers !!)
This visualization offers a step-by-step explanation of the storyline, guiding readers through each “dream level” of the film. It helps us understand everything: the role of each character, where they are, and which events are happening simultaneously.
2 – Art: Analyzing the color palettes of great artworks
Arthur Buxton has created a data visualization that shows an overview of the color palettes used by ten painters, including Monet, Gauguin, and Cézanne, over a period of ten years. These offer a new perspective on these artists, sorting them by the colors used rather than by art movement.
Arthur Buxton has created a data visualization that shows an overview of the color palettes used by ten painters, including Monet, Gauguin, and Cézanne, over a period of ten years. These offer a new perspective on these artists, sorting them by the colors used rather than by art movement.
The data presented here is a direct reflection of concepts from everyday life. Ideas are presented and analyzed based on their significance, duration and the feelings that they evoke. Another interesting perspective on a common subject!
4 – National Geographic: Cartography
This visualization shows how various different geographers worked to map the world, from 1915 to the present day.They help us understand the tremendous scope of these projects, and the challenging work of geographers at the beginning of the last century.
5 – Gastronomy in pictures
Here is a fun example of another data visualization that is directly applicable to everyday life: food and wine pairings.
6 – Data visualization through video
Data visualization can take many different forms – though most are aesthetically pleasing, they are usually static images. However, videos can also be used to depict data. Take a look at the following visualization for everything you need to know about the planet Earth :
7 – Literature and astronomy :
It combines literature and astronomy in an extremely original way: the first sentence of a literary work is always unique. Here, the artist uses the grammatical structure of opening sentences from well-known works such as The Phantom of the Opera, Robinson Crusoe and Robin Hood, as well as the length and rhythm of the words, to create a diagram in the form of a constellation for each sentence.
Source : Toucantoco.com