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So some brief advice from spending about 5 years as a visualization engineer/designer/data scientist: 1. Get an intuitive understanding of the data 2. (via Al
by nikhizzle 6y ago
So some brief advice from spending about 5 years as a visualization engineer/designer/data scientist:
1. Get an intuitive understanding of the data
2. (via Alberto Cairo) Aim to allow the user to correlate, organize and compare this data
3. Come up with a few visual means to do no. 2, and get feedback and iterate.
4. Go to the catalogs and see what work has already been done on your version of 3, and then implement.
It is amazing how many "original" charts I have created which have already been named and studied from a perceptual science point of view. But it is still important to come to a clear understanding from your own point of view of how the data fits that representation.
- mistrial9 6y ago>> "original" charts I have created which have already been named and studied thank you! I am slightly embarrassed to say, I thought I had personally invented a certain version of the BoxPlot, and after vacation presented it our Department Head, whose wife has a Masters Degree in Statistics! I told a story about what I wanted to solve, and how I intended to solve it, and the BoxPlot part was buried in there.. so it wasnt that bad. Only I (and now you, the reader) noticed my internal error.
- stevenbedrick 6y agoJust to chime in as somebody who's taught data viz for years: I didn't hear anything in your story for you to be embarrassed about! Accidentally re-inventing the box plot just means that you're thinking at the same level as Mary Eleanor Spear and John Tukey, and in my book that's something to feel pretty good about. :-)