Posts Tagged ‘Visualization’
Add Meaning to Data with Graphs
Visualization of data and information can take many forms. Data in the form of text and numbers often don’t convey the obvious conclusions that may be reached from the data. Visual representations of data however may make data far more simple to understand and, particularly with large and complex data-sets, quicker from which to draw conclusions. Data are usually represented as graphs when a visual representation is required.
Data analysis, and the subsequent conclusions reached, may have wide ranging implications; take for example data about education, training and skills attainment in a country or region. This data are often used for government policy relating to future education and skills needs. The conclusions reached from the data-set therefore have far reaching implications and it is hence of importance that the data are understood by the various stakeholders. To make the data more meaningful for the audience graphs and other images may be very beneficial.
In order to demonstrate a few different means of displaying the same data, I have created the images as below from a data-set; The data are from the Australian National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) and represents Read the rest of this entry »
Related postsWord Clouds (and a great Wordle tip)
There are some awesome image tools available on the Web of which many are free to use. More sites are using Word Clouds (also called Word Trees and Word Visualization) as sites such as Wordle become more popular. Below is a visualization created of my Home page with size indicating frequency of use. I can imagine that this sort of visualization may be very useful for search engine optimization (SEO) purposes (e.g. when analyzing competitors Websites using a visualization such as that below is a very simple means of determining the words used on a Webpage).
Wordle tip: Many people ask how to keep phrases and expressions intact with Wordle (i.e. how can words be kept together with Wordle?). Well all that needs be done is enter the ~ (tilde) character between words that need to be kept together e.g. enter Registered~Training~Organization to ensure that Wordle shows this term as a phrase rather than separating the words.
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