Data Visualization By Rafid Khan

                                                         Data Visualization By Rafid Khan 

1) Do Now

• Watch the video on data visualization

• Write down 3 important takeaways from this video

• Write down at least one lesson you learned that you can apply to your own data visualization

a) Getting design to be gotten out of the way is important because it's about the relationship with

the viewer and how they reason about the content.

b) Style and aesthetics cannot rescue failed content. If the words aren't truthful, the finest optically

letter-spaced typography won't turn lies into truths.

c) The history of visualizing data is very substantially a history of science.

d) Data visualization is not just about airy fairy, creative process, but it's actually a very linear

process of decision making that you can do based on some few basic principles.

e) Three things should inform your design always. One is you, as the designer. What you have to

say and what you want to communicate. Two is the reader. That reader is not you, and they're

going to come with their own context, and their own biases, and their own assumptions, and

you need to account for that. And third is the data itself, and what that has to say, and how that

inform the truth.

f) We can communicate the information very quickly, because we all have brains that are

designed to recognize patterns this way.

g) There are also emotional impact, we react to design, and to art, and to the aesthetics of a

piece, just as much as we react to the information contained in it. And so if you want to change

someone's mind, you want ot change someone's behavior, sometimes presenting the

information in a visual format is the fastest way to get them to engage with that information.

h) Data itself is a result of research. It is a clue to the end truth.

i) The first step is usually, is always dig really deeply into data ourselves, and find each key

point and create a hierarchy, and a narrative out of that story. When you start to merge

different pieces of information, and when you start to learn really what it's all saying, the

narrative is clear. One fact that everything can revolve around, it's the hero of the piece.

There's always one single piece of data or insight that people respond to the kind of

encapsulates the whole vision.

j) When you look at a piece, it is successful, when it translates data from something that's

complicated to something simple. When it communications a message that otherwise would

have taken somebody hours to digest and find in an instant

k) We're dealing with data systems that are larger than anything that humans have ever

built or experienced before.

l) There is another purpose of data visualization where there is revelation, which is show us

something that we've never seen before.

m) If we were to show them some pieces of picture, and the ideas that they can sort of stand

back from that and watch it pass for a little bit and come out of it with some deeper understanding

One lesson that can be shown to support my data visualization is focusing on the audience awareness

of the design. It's meaning through it's design should be obvious and straightforward without leading

towards any misunderstanding. In addition, focusing on the factual of the content itself will be

able to determine the accuracy of the data visualization. This way, various perspective of the audience

view will be able to have an understanding within the same field through interpreting the design. This

way the value of data visualization is required with presenting correct themes, truth and seeking way

to get the audience attention to indirectly be able to have a communication between you as a designer

and the viewer.

2) • Make a blog post called “Data Visualization”

• Show your ideas for the data visualization of these statistics
• www.statista.com/statistics/1378084/migrants-stock-world-highest-population/#:~:text=The%20United%20States%20hosted%2C%20by,16%20and%2013%20million%2C%20respectively
• Write a 200 word reflection on this work

According to this statistic, charts such as horizontal charts can be a very significant technique to express data visualization. Where it is able to chronologically capture from  highest to lowest immigrants population order with United States being the highest. Each bar have a estimated length to visually symbolize the amount of immigrants population. With having United States to have the longest bar with 50 million immigrants. Meanwhile the runner ups like Germany and Saudi Arabia have the second and third highest. The length of each country's migration can be able to determine the motivation for immigrants to immigrate to certain countries due to possibly a better materials and opportunities to live better in one country than the others, especially United States. Along with the charts is a brief annotations to clarify why countries with the higher advantage such as the United States having a drastic gap than other countries. Such as religious persecutions, poverty, reunion, starting a new life and other reasons. Therefore, this shows that expressing data visualization through charts shows not only the images and visual itself, but also spread it's main point behind it so the audience can understand what they're interpreting. These charts are more than counting numbers and statistics but rather have a significant value that touch the audience's critical thinking from simply just identifying the number and charts that are being expressed through a well critical topics like immigrants population in each countries. In which these color coded country helps indicates the amount of immigrants of each countries and whether if it's high or low. Since there is a lot of same color coded for different countries so I put the country flags under each bar to make a better and clear understanding representation of the number of immigrants worldwide.