Data Visualization Examples

Jeremy M. Mikecz

2019

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Data Visualization Examples

  1. collections of examples
    1. Alberto Cairo, The Truthful Art
      1. also see Cairo’s blog
    2. The blog of Nathan Yau, a pioneer in data visualization: Flowing Data
    3. The New York Times produces some of the best work in data journalism; to review their work you may:
      1. browse through the current (https://www.nytimes.com/), especially their “Upshot” section
      2. See their yearly review of their visual graphics: i.e. 2018, 2017
      3. Nathan Yau’s review of their work at Flowing Data
      4. NYT gallery on visually
    4. see anything from Katy Börner’s pioneering work visualizing the history of science:
      1. She has some poster examples on her website for good examples of how you can integrate data visualizatons with text on printer posters rather than simply posting online.
      2. check out any of her books such as Atlas of Knowledge (2014) and Atlas of Science (2010).
      3. more of her work and that of her colleagues can be seen here.
    5. a huge collection of data visualizations is available at visualising data
    6. also see visme
  2. Map collections
    1. for a great collection of historical thematic maps from the U.S. see Susan Schulten’s book Mapping the Nation
    2. for Latin America see Jordana Dym, Mapping Latin America.
  3. Qualitative Mapping
    1. Michael James Hermann and Margaret Wickens Pearce, They Would Not Take Me There: Peoples, Places, and Stories from Champlain’s Travels in Canada, 1603 - 1616
    2. final chapters in Anne Knowles, et al. Geographies of the Holocaust (I will place a chapter on Blackboard)
  4. Quantitative Mapping
    1. Transatlantic Slave Trade Database (see also the book by Eltis & Richardson)
  5. Mapping Injustice & Oppression
    1. Monroe Work Today, Map of White Supremacy Violence
    2. Mapping Inequality
  6. Collections of Spatial History research (research that uses digital maps and other tools to analyze how history plays out across space as well as time)
    1. Stanford University’s Spatial History Project
    2. Stanford also has a variety of other digital humanities labs. Click here for more.
  7. Pre-digital data visualizations/
    1. Charles Minard’s infographics (especially his on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia)
    2. Florence Nightengale
    3. ask me for more examples…
  8. Some data visualization tools with gallerys of screenshot examples:
    1. d3.js