This post is part of a series focused on exploring DVS 2020 survey data to understand more about tool usage in data vis. See other posts in the series using the ToolsVis tag. As this exploration continues, I’m working my way deeper and deeper into the data, trying to get to an understanding of which tools people…
Tag: design process
Better Together: Pairwise analysis of tools
This post is part of a series focused on exploring DVS 2020 survey data to understand more about tool usage in data vis. See other posts in the series using the ToolsVis tag. Playing around with the branching vis from the last article got me thinking about which aspects of the tool grouping really matter. What I…
Pivot to Tools
I’ve taken an unexpected pivot in the past couple of months, and took on a position as director of education for the Data Vis Society. As a result of that, some work craziness, and needing to move unexpectedly this summer, the PlantVis project is on hold until further notice. But there’s still a lot of…
Understanding Plant Families
This post is part of an exploratory series for a new project that will visualize data related to plants, botany, evolutionary history, and the coming of spring. Use the PlantVis tag to follow along. The spring project is about learning as much as it is about data vis, so I’ve been reading several books about…
Exploring Phenophases
This post is part of an exploratory series for a new project that will visualize data related to plants, botany, evolutionary history, and the coming of spring. Use the PlantVis tag to follow along. One of the first datasets I found when I started this project was from the National Phenology Network. Phenology is the…
The discipline of not jumping right in
I have the day off from work, and am in the earliest stages of exploring a new project. I have a general topic, and I’ve found a couple of datasets to confirm that there is information out there that I could compile and use. And now comes the hardest part: resisting the urge to jump…
ThesisSite: Consolidating Storylines
My thesis project can be divided into roughly three different phases. I began exploring the topic and identifying relevant datasets in my Research Methods class last spring. Last semester, I continued expanding the topic and developed several different experiments for visualizing the data (links in the related posts below), as well as working on the…
IDStudio2: Visualizing Twitter
It seems I never posted about my ID Studio 2 semester project. The guidelines were very broad: we were given the option of several social media sites, and asked to choose a visualization project using data from that site. I chose to work with data from Twitter, because I thought it would be interesting to…
Genealogy of the Written Word
Seven months later, I finally found a day to sit down and brush up the final details for my Genealogy of the Written Word poster that I presented in my Design History class in October. Here’s the version I presented in class: And my first touched-up version: The biggest change was eliminating the gradient and allowing the map…
ResearchMethods: Piling on the data
The next step for my research methods poster is to figure out how to add in the richness of the dataset and a sense of context/importance of the topic for global issues. To do this, I really wanted to get into granular data about land use and soil degradation, rather than sticking with the simple…