WAT-E2090 - Water and People in a Changing World L, 16.04.2019-23.05.2019

Osion kuvaus

• Visualisation guides and examples
  Overall guides for different visualisation types
  

  • Fundamentals of data visualisation: http://serialmentor.com/dataviz/ (very good online guide to the basics of good, informative and visually appealing visualisations)
    
  • Visualisation quick guide: https://www.domo.com/assets/downloads/resources/visualization-guide.pdf (guide to select right kind of visualisation and most important things to consider in those)
  • Data visualisation catalogue: https://datavizcatalogue.com (great catalogue of the different visualisation types, good examples, inspirations)

  
  

  Some tips for good poster design

  • https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2018/05/11/how-to-design-an-award-winning-conference-poster/
  • http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/design-sci-poster.html

  
  

  Specific guides 
  

  Week 1: Maps

  • Choropleth Map
    
  • Bubble map
  • Guide to map legends

  
  

  Week 2: Bar graphs & Scatter plots

  • Standard bar chart
  • Multi-set bar chart

  • Scatter plot with points
  • Scatter plot with lines

  
  

  Week 3: Histograms and tables

  • Histograms
  • Tables

  
  

  Table 1. Example table from the week's exercise, with the most important characteristics of the table highlighted. Table shows the countries with per capita food production larger than 10 000 kcal/cap/day.

  
  

  
  

  Week 4: Vector maps and 100% stack bar

  • Choropleth Map
    
  • 100% stack bar chart

  
  

  Week 5: Stacked area graph

  • Stacked area graph
    

  
  

  Week 5&6: Infographics
  

  • Water related infographics
  • Guides for good infographic: Venngage blog, Canva blog