Talk given by Andy Kirk at the 'Design of Understanding' 2014 conference.

1. DATA VISUALISATION AND INFOGRAPHIC DESIGN:
‘STATE OF THE UNION’
Andy Kirk
@visualisingdata
PROJECTS
STORYTELLING
INFOGRAPHICS
TECHNIQUES
TECHNOLOGY
ISSUES
MARKETPLACE
2014 & BEYOND

2. INTRO
You decide which one is me…
Andy Kirk
Andy Kirk
Andy Kirk
Andy Kirk
Slightly moody 22 year old worship artist from Nashville, TN
Journeyman Northern Irish footballer coming to the end of his career
Renowned jazz saxophonist and bandleader
Self-proclaimed data visualisation specialist

3. PROJECTS

4. PROJECTS
Dialect Quiz Map | New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=0

5. PROJECTS
US Gun Murders | Periscopic
http://guns.periscopic.com/

6. PROJECTS
Brooklyn’s Past and Present | BKLYNR
http://bklynr.com/block-by-block-brooklyns-past-and-present/

7. PROJECTS
The Age of a City | Justin Palmer
http://labratrevenge.com/pdx/

8. PROJECTS
Earth | Cameron Beccario
http://earth.nullschool.net/

9. STORYTELLING

10. STORYTELLING
Snow Fall | New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=tunnel-creek

11. STORYTELLING
Riding the Silk Road | New York Times
www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/07/21/silk-road/

12. STORYTELLING
Wealth Inequality in America | Politizane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM

13. INFOGRAPHICS

14. INFOGRAPHICS
What are the Odds? | Sofya Yampolsky
http://visual.ly/what-are-odds

15. INFOGRAPHICS
xkcd, Visual.ly
http://xkcd.com/1273/ | http://visual.ly/

16. INFOGRAPHICS
Infographic Portfolio | Adolfo Arranz, SCMP
http://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1193675/remembering-kowloon-walled-city | http://lasombra.blogs.com/la_sombra_del_asno/2013/05/sichuans-earthquake.html

17. TECHNIQUES

18. TECHNIQUES
Accurat Studio for Corriere della Sera
http://www.accurat.it/

19. TECHNIQUES
History of NCAA Conferences | New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/11/30/football-conferences/

20. TECHNIQUES
Swiss Map Series | Interactive Things for NZZ
http://work.interactivethings.com/nzz-swiss-maps/

21. TECHNIQUES
Volatility in the Eurozone Crisis | Jane Pong, SCMP
http://officeofjane.com/projects/eurozone/

22. TECHNIQUES
Small Multiples, Sankeys & Slope Graphs
http://viz.ged-project.de/ | http://www.visualisingdata.com/index.php/2013/12/in-praise-of-slopegraphs/

23. TECHNOLOGY

24. TECHNOLOGY
200+ Tools | Visualisingdata.com
http://www.visualisingdata.com/index.php/resources/

25. TECHNOLOGY
D3.js
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/11/02/us/politics/paths-to-the-white-house.html

26. TECHNOLOGY
RAW | Density Design Lab
http://raw.densitydesign.org/

27. TECHNOLOGY
Tableau + R
http://www.tableausoftware.com

28. TECHNOLOGY
CartoDB, Mapbox
http://melbourneurbanforestvisual.com.au/bigmap.html | https://www.mapbox.com/showcase/#dataviz

29. ISSUES

30. ISSUES
Constructive Criticism | HelpMeViz
http://helpmeviz.com/

31. ISSUES
Gender Balance?
http://moritz.stefaner.eu/projects/gender-balance/#RATIO/NUM | http://www.visualisingdata.com/index.php/2013/03/1578-responses-to-the-first-data-visualisation-census/

32. ISSUES
Information is Beautiful Awards | Kantar
http://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/2013-winners/

33. ISSUES
Attribution of Influence/Inspiration
http://citysdk.waag.org/buildings/#52.3603,4.8978,12

34. MARKETPLACE

35. MARKETPLACE
Visual.ly
“Visually
said
it
grew
10
times
since
it
launched
its
project
center
last
year
and
has
paid
out
$2
million
to
its
network
of
100,000
designers.”
http://venturebeat.com/2014/01/14/visually-raises-8-1m-to-flood-the-internet-with-even-more-infographics/

36. MARKETPLACE
Job Boards | Lynn Cherny & Flowing Data
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/data-vis-jobs | http://flowingdata.com/category/job-board/

37. MARKETPLACE
Ecosystem
Thought-leading
‘illuminati’
Professional/Practitioner
Informed enthusiast
Casual enthusiast
Occasional everyone

38. MARKETPLACE
Initiator
Cognitive
Science
Skills? The 8 Hats of Visualisation Design
Journalist
Design
Communicator
Computer
Science
http://www.visualisingdata.com/index.php/2012/06/article-the-8-hats-of-data-visualisation-design/
Project
Manager
Data
Science

39. 2014 & BEYOND

40. 2014 & BEYOND
View from the cycle of hype
http://public.brighttalk.com/resource/core/19507/august_21_hype_cycle_fenn_lehong_29685.pdf

41. 2014 & BEYOND
Consumer Technology Advancements?
http://www.datainnovation.org/2013/10/big-data-visualization-you-can-touch/ | http://www.visualisingdata.com/index.php/2013/11/3d-printing-capability-via-dataappeal-maps/

42. 2014 & BEYOND
Multi-Sensory Representation
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/local/dc-shot-spotter/ | www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/quiet/#/map/

43. 2014 & BEYOND
Multi-Sensory Representation
http://ciid.dk/education/portfolio/idp12/courses/data-visualisation/projects/tasty-tweets/ | http://blog.emoto2012.org/ |
http://www.sensorymaps.com/maps_cities/edi_smell.html

44. 2014 & BEYOND
More ‘Design for Understanding’?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/for-christie-perhaps-a-bridge-too-far/2014/01/09/2928e054-797a-11e3-af7f-13bf0e9965f6_graphic.html |
http://blog.visual.ly/how-data-visualization-changed-the-way-we-experience-sailing/

45. 2014 & BEYOND
More ‘Data for Action’?
“Even
a
lack
of
postings
can
tell
the
Red
Cross
something.
If
there
is
a
social
media
black
hole
in
a
certain
neighborhood,
that
probably
means
the
area
needs
help.”
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3020923/how-the-red-cross-used-tweets-to-save-lives-during-hurricane-sandy

46. DATA VISUALISATION AND INFOGRAPHIC DESIGN:
‘STATE OF THE UNION’
Andy Kirk
@visualisingdata
PROJECTS
STORYTELLING
INFOGRAPHICS
TECHNIQUES
TECHNOLOGY
ISSUES
MARKETPLACE
2014 & BEYOND