Data Visualization and Information Design: Create a Visual Model
Finding the Data: The Sources
A course by Federica Fragapane , Information Designer
Joined January 2021
Joined January 2021
About the video: Finding the Data: The Sources
Overview
“In this lesson, we’re going to explore the first phase of a data visualization project: finding a reliable source, exploring it and selecting the data and the story you want to tell. ”
In this video lesson Federica Fragapane addresses the topic: Finding the Data: The Sources, 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, we are going to explore the first phase of a data visualization project. finding a reliable source exploring it. finding the data and the story you want to tell. I mentioned before that my usual design process is composed of three phases. selection of sources and topic, data analysis, and then definition of a specific visual model. We are going to work on all these three phases together. Let's start from the sources. I often propose the topics of my visualizations. And to do so, I constantly look for new stories and datasets. I also know a list of excellent and reliable sour...”
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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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