The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing - Edward Tufte
It is our job to understand science and portray the data
As designers we need to know:
Think Pie Charts, Line Charts, etc. and the trick is using the right one in visualising data. In the example below we can see two sets of data in the graph, life expectancy going up and the health expenditure of said country on the bottom, and looking at this graph we can clearly see that the USA is spending the most money on health care whilst having the lowest life expectancy. Another thing to note is that it is recorded from the 1970s to 2018, another important factor when dealing data.
Bus Timetables, Weather Report, Election Results, Sales forecast there is data all around us, and as said before it is our job to visualise this data, Sometimes we need to design different chart and Icons and it’s important as a designer to consider this task well and visualise stuff
In class we looked at David McCandless and his work on Diagrams and I wanted to look at a few of his examples and talk about them.
Mountains out of molehills interested me as it is exactly what the data represents, Mountains in a line graph that represent news flares around crazy topics like violent video games, I thought this was an interesting way to represent trends, representing them as mountains shows how popular the topics are and how long they were popular
This statistical diagram interested me due to the strict colour palette, which made it stand out, the diagram itself is about which actor is the biggest badass in Hollywood, with the statistic counting how many kills each actor has got in each of their action movies, With Jovovich with the most kills, so much so she is off the charts.
I like the way that the data is presented here, simple with a clear contrast of colour and the characters as well, I know the face but can struggle with the name and this is a good way of telling me who is the biggest badass in movies.
I then looked at James Round as well, just for some variation and I wanted to look at 3 diagrams
I looked at this cheat sheet of all the Presidents up to Obama, sharing their firsts, numbers and their general statistics, I thought this was interesting and designed well, It does feel like the Old American design style, with a good us
On June 9, 2008, Steve Jobs took the stage in San Francisco to unveil the new iPhone. As he presented the new market share of apple following the launch of the first iPhone, he illustrated it with this graphic
But there is something wrong with this Pie Chart… Notice the Apple part of the pie, now look at the “Other” part of the pie, notice how the 3D element of the pie makes the 21.2% smaller, this is deception in statistics and it is un-ethical to practice this, so ensure when designing statistics that it is ethical and accurate.
Here’s how you would fix this mistake and improve the pie chart