This presentation highlights findings from my work as a visualization designer. The seven principles are distilled pieces from projects I reviewed or worked on myself. I believe it's important to learn from every project as much as you can and share this experience with the community to grow collectively.
7 Principles for Engaging Users with Visualization
1. HELLO!
I’m Benjamin from Interactive Things
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2. INTERACTIVE THINGS
User Experience & Data Visualization Studio
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3. DATAVISUALIZATION.CH
Resource for Data Visualization & Infographics
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Principles for Engaging Users with Visualization
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6. SUPPLY
Build an treasure chest of data.
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12. NARRATION
Tell compelling stories with visualization.
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13. Donald Norman
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Stories are important cognitive
events, for they encapsulate, into
one compact package, information,
knowledge, context, & emotion.
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14. Edward Segel & Jeffrey Heer
Narrative Visualization: Telling Stories with Data
Martini Glass Structure
Interactive Slideshow
Drill-Down Story
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16. Edward Segel & Jeffrey Heer
Narrative Visualization: Telling Stories with Data
Martini Glass Structure
Interactive Slideshow
Drill-Down Story
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18. Edward Segel & Jeffrey Heer
Narrative Visualization: Telling Stories with Data
Martini Glass Structure
Interactive Slideshow
Drill-Down Story
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35. 141 A Practical Guide to Designing with data ~ Area graphs and charts
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This is the niche that horizon graphs are designed to fill. They are
basic line graphs split horizontally into a set number of bands.
This example uses four bands, but they can contain as many
as required. Each of the bands is coloured with an increasing
intensity of blue. So far, this is no different than a standard line
graph with some interesting shading.
The next part is the Eureka! moment. Since we are really only
interested in the outer edge of the line graph, why not collapse
each of the bands on top of each other to save space?
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This is the niche that horizon graphs are designed to fill. They are
basic line graphs split horizontally into a set number of bands.
This example uses four bands, but they can contain as many
as required. Each of the bands is coloured with an increasing
intensity of blue. So far, this is no different than a standard line
graph with some interesting shading.
The next part is the Eureka! moment. Since we are really only
interested in the outer edge of the line graph, why not collapse
each of the bands on top of each other to save space?
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Now we have the same data presented in a quarter of the space.
By changing the colour of the shading, the graph appears to be
stacking up the parts. There is nothing hiding behind any of the
peaks so, unlike 3-D charts, nothing is being obscured.
This works with both positive and negative values.
Maybe in some weeks the shops were making a loss, which can
be represented with a different colour, such as varying intensities
of red.
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Now you can rapidly see which weeks saw gains and which saw
losses, and at the same time also watch the line trend upwards
or downwards.
The horizon graph works really well when large numbers of
data sets need to be compared. Converting one line graph into a
horizon graph does save some space, but now that we have this
ribbon, we can stack more ribbons on top to get a quick view of all
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Now you can rapidly see which weeks saw gains and which saw
losses, and at the same time also watch the line trend upwards
or downwards.
The horizon graph works really well when large numbers of
data sets need to be compared. Converting one line graph into a
horizon graph does save some space, but now that we have this
ribbon, we can stack more ribbons on top to get a quick view of all
the different shops and compare them in a limited space.
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39. Computed Interactive Dynamic Animated
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