Data Visualization and Information Design: Create a Visual Model
The Broad Field of Data Visualization: Readers and Usage Context
A course by Federica Fragapane , Information Designer
Joined January 2021
About the video: The Broad Field of Data Visualization: Readers and Usage Context
Overview
“Here I’m going to show you how broad the data visualization field can be. I will show you some examples and I will also talk about some misconceptions on designing data visualizations.”
In this video lesson Federica Fragapane addresses the topic: The Broad Field of Data Visualization: Readers and Usage Context, 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 talk about the wide range of possible data visualization projects about some misconceptions and also about the importance of knowing the usage context of our works. Data visualization is a broad field. In the past years, I've designed reports, visualizations for magazines, websites, I also designed a children book and also try to experiment a little bit mixing data visualization and theater. Also, the range of complexity that characterizes my projects is broad. according to the needs, the readers and the usage context. I think that a misconception about this fie...”
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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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