Week 12 – Data Visualisation
This week I was introduced to data visualisation. Examples shown in the lecture were very interesting and it makes viewing data and statistics somewhat enjoyable to read.
One that I really liked was a website called Oakland crimespotting which looks at offenses from murder to arson and places them on on a map of Oakland. It allows you to go back minutes, hours, days and months to see what happened and when. Not hard in concept and probably not that hard in implementation but definitely a great idea for reviewing crime patterns.
Other examples of Data visualisation.
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The video above was a nice little clip I found on Youtube which has a few different (interactive) data visualisation sets. The application they’re using is very smooth and although I can’t tell exactly what data is being presented it still looks nice!
