Data Visualization

By Firoj Ghimire

OKFN Nepal

What is?

Pictorial representation of data for meaningful insight.

What is?

Pictorial representation of data for meaningful insight.

By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can

explore with your eyes, a sort of information map. And when you’re lost

in information, an information map is kind of useful.

―David McCandless

Why?

“The main goal of data visualization is to communicate information clearly

and effectively.”

• Convey information through visual representations

• Find Patterns

• Story Telling

• Inspire

Why?

The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.

―Carly Fiorina

How?

• Bar Graphs

How?

• Pie Charts

How?

• Bubble Tree

How?

• Data Map Visualization

How?

• Infographics

Tools

• OpenSpending

• Datawrapper

• Spreadsheet Softwares

• Google Fusion Tables

• Infogr.am

• Libraries(arbor.js,cubism.js,kartograph.py,igraph,prefuse……… etc)

• Programming Languages( Matlab, R, Processing,……. etc)

Thank You!