data visualisation

There are many ways you can visualize data. It can be through colors, shape, size, thickness of a line, and many more.

In the tutorial today, we discussed many different example of data visualisation. One of the example that catches my attention was a video made out of many different information about the use of internet around the world. The use of size of globe that represents different numbers of people using internet each year worldwide and it starts from as little as 45.1 million in 1995 and the globe just keeps on growing up to 1.73 billion internet users worldwide.

Different colour coordination shown on how many spam messages you'd received each day in your mailbox and this was represent as red mails and taller piles, and normal mail was represent in white. I think this is a good way to demonstrate and really put a pressure on the message that they try to deliver.

The way they present the video is really unique i think because they have used the actual logos of particular websites. For example Twitter, they have used Twitter bird to describe how many tweets are going into twitter each day. They also use Asthon Kutcher as an example and attached his picture on the slide to show 4.63 million people are actually following him on twitter.

The same with YouTube, they presented the slide as if it was one of the video from youtube site that looks like a little television screen with navigation button underneath. They also associate the colour background accordingly with the colour theme on each websites (Twitter: light blue, YouTube: red)