communicating data by Amanda Black https://padlet.com/amandablack/communicatingdata What do students need to do with data? en-us 2018-05-18 07:35:21 UTC 2020-02-19 16:37:59 UTC hello@padlet.com What do employers want? amandablack https://padlet.com/amandablack/communicatingdata/wish/261836631 1.  Excel.
 
2. simple analytics e.g. Google analytics. 
 
3. Weaving a story - the importance of data over time. 


“There is an interesting dance here, in that data (observations, equations, structural formulas, spectra) are useless without the narrative, theoretical framework to make a story out of them.”—Raold Hoffman

4.  visualising. 

5.  communication and translation

Q. What do your students need?
]]> 2018-05-18 08:10:10 UTC https://padlet.com/amandablack/communicatingdata/wish/261836631 How do students and staff get it amandablack https://padlet.com/amandablack/communicatingdata/wish/261837018 1.  Lynda.com.  Free course on Futurelearn
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/data-to-insight
2. Free Courses on google analytics - https://analytics.google.com/analytics/academy/
3. Specialist input on data visualisation - via expert colleagues; learning technologists]]> 2018-05-18 08:12:13 UTC https://padlet.com/amandablack/communicatingdata/wish/261837018 The visual stuff part 1. Can you find a metaphor that needs no explanation? amandablack https://padlet.com/amandablack/communicatingdata/wish/261837607 A menu?
A pressure valve?

an introduction to visualising data.
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/big-data-visualisation
visualising - the tableau way (standard)
https://research.tableau.com/sites/default/files/Ziemkiewicz_InfoVis_2008.pdf

Using metaphor for spatial mapping
http://visanalytics.org/articles/olt/Cybulski_Metaphors_in_Data.pdf

]]> 2018-05-18 08:15:15 UTC https://padlet.com/amandablack/communicatingdata/wish/261837607 The visual stuff part 2 amandablack https://padlet.com/amandablack/communicatingdata/wish/261837704 How do I do it?

Hans Rosling and data narration.    The story of data over time. From 1m to 4.42) - you can do it using

https://www.gapminder.org/tools-offline/



http://vis.stanford.edu/files/2010-Narrative-InfoVis.pdf

Making connections (that you might not expect)

https://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~histecon/visualizing/privileges/index.html.

Gephi.  https://blog.ouseful.info/2011/07/07/visualising-twitter-friend-connections-using-gephi-an-example-using-wireduk-friends-network/]]> 2018-05-18 08:15:45 UTC https://padlet.com/amandablack/communicatingdata/wish/261837704