data visualization| open data day 2015, kathmandu, nepal
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What is?
Pictorial representation of data for meaningful insight.
By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can
explore with your eyes, a sort of information map. And when you’re lost
in information, an information map is kind of useful.
―David McCandless
Why?
“The main goal of data visualization is to communicate information clearly
and effectively.”
• Convey information through visual representations
• Find Patterns
• Story Telling
• Inspire
Tools
• OpenSpending
• Datawrapper
• Spreadsheet Softwares
• Google Fusion Tables
• Infogr.am
• Libraries(arbor.js,cubism.js,kartograph.py,igraph,prefuse……… etc)
• Programming Languages( Matlab, R, Processing,……. etc)