Data Visualization and Information Design: Create a Visual Model
Designing Visual Alphabets
A course by Federica Fragapane , Information Designer
Joined January 2021
Joined January 2021
About the video: Designing Visual Alphabets
Overview
“In this lesson, I am going to introduce the field of data visualization and explain how we can use visual alphabets to communicate stories and information.”
In this video lesson Federica Fragapane addresses the topic: Designing Visual Alphabets , which is part of the Domestika online course: Data Visualization and Information Design: Create a Visual Model. Bring clarity to complexity by creating an engaging data visualization piece that communicates information with ease.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, I'm going to introduce the field of data visualization, and to explain how we can use visual alphabets to communicate information and stories. Let's start from the definition of data visualization, according to Oxford languages, a chart, diagram, picture, that is created as a visual representation of information. We are surrounded by data and information. I want to quote Alberto Cairo. He's a journalist and designer and the night chair in visual journalism at the School of Communication in Miami. Unstructured information means reality. the world out there in all its glorious...”
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Course summary for: Data Visualization and Information Design: Create a Visual Model
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Federica Fragapane
A course by Federica Fragapane
Federica Fragapane is an award-winning information designer based in Italy with a decade of experience. Her work bridges the gap between emotion, empathy, and information. Federica is also the creative force behind Google’s data visualization project The Shape of Dreams.
She has collaborated with organizations like the United Nations, BBC Science Focus, Wired, and Scientific American. Federica coauthored Planet Earth for NatGeoKIDS and Geopolitical Atlas of Water. In 2018, Federica was also invited to speak at OpenVis Conf in Paris and TEDxVerona, as well as EU DataViz at the Publications Office of the EU in 2019, and a virtual lecture at Design Lab, Harvard University in 2021. She also works with La Lettura, the cultural segment of the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.
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