Week 4 Lecture Pod

Summary

For this week’s lecture, it is a continuation of last weeks pod which delves into the use cases of data visualisation through history while this week conveys more reasons into visualising data and modern examples. Firstly, Visualising is used to help users from having to go through multiple line of data and figuring out their meaning themselves which in turn saves time. An example of making data clearer to understand can be seen in the images below of country birth-rates which transforms from a table to a graph.

Table and graph

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Waterson, S. (2016). Visualisation: Historical and contemporary visualisation methods- part 2. 102269 Data visualisation. [Video file]. Retrieved from https://vimeo.com/176255825

Even though visualising can help in understanding data, too much of it can also make it more difficult to figure out which are called infographics.

Infographic

Reflection

The important aspect to get out of this lecture is that data visualising needs to be balanced in a way where there is not too much data to comprehend and not too much visualising of the data, which could distract the user from the information.