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Designing Data Visualizations Workshop

Noah Iliinsky (IBM)
9:00am Tuesday, 02/28/2012
Visualization & Interface, GA J
Please note: to attend, your registration must include Tutorials.
Presentations: Designing Data Visualizations Workshop Presentation [PDF],
Designing Data Visualizations Workshop Presentation 1 [ZIP],
Designing Data Visualizations Workshop Presentation 2 [PDF],
Designing Data Visualizations Workshop Presentation 3 [PDF],
Designing Data Visualizations Workshop Presentation 4 [PDF]
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Attendees: All attendees should bring paper an pen for quick sketching. Attendees should bring their own data to work with. Alternately, they can download interesting data sets from sites such as infochimps.com, buzzdata.com, and data.gov. People with access to a windows machine might want to install Tableau Public.

We will discuss how to figure out what story to tell, select the right data, and pick appropriate layout and encodings. The goal is to learn how to create a visualization that conveys appropriate knowledge to a specific audience (which may include the designer).

We’ll briefly discuss tools, including pencil and paper. No prior technology or graphic design experience is necessary. An awareness of some basic user-centered design concepts will be helpful.

Understanding of your specific data or data types will help immensely. Please do bring data sets to play with.

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Noah Iliinsky

IBM

Noah Iliinsky is the co-author of Designing Data Visualizations and technical editor of, and a contributor to, Beautiful Visualization, published By O’Reilly Media.

He has spent the last several years thinking about effective approaches to creating diagrams and other types of information visualizations. He also works in interface and interaction design, all from a functional and user-centered perspective. Before becoming a designer he was a programmer for several years.

He has a master’s in Technical Communication from the University of Washington, and a bachelor’s in Physics from Reed College.

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  • Microsoft
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  • MarkLogic
  • Shared Learning Collaborative
  • Cloudera
  • Digital Reasoning Systems
  • Pentaho
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  • VMware
  • IBM
  • NetApp
  • Oracle
  • 1010data
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  • Acxiom
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Calpont
  • Cisco
  • Couchbase
  • Cray
  • Datameer
  • DataSift
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  • Esri
  • Facebook
  • Feedzai
  • Hadapt
  • Hortonworks
  • Impetus
  • Jaspersoft
  • Karmasphere
  • Lucid Imagination
  • MapR Technologies
  • Pervasive
  • Platform Computing
  • Revolution Analytics
  • Scaleout Software
  • Skytree, Inc.
  • Splunk
  • Tableau Software
  • Talend

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