Analog Data Visualization for Storytelling
Tidying and Categorizing the Data
A course by Stefanie Posavec , Designer, Artist, and Author
Joined October 2021
Joined October 2021
About the video: Tidying and Categorizing the Data
Overview
“Next, you will learn how to clean and streamline your dataset. I will guide you in pinpointing any potential design problems and planning to find elegant visualization solutions. ”
In this video lesson Stefanie Posavec addresses the topic: Tidying and Categorizing the Data, which is part of the Domestika online course: Analog Data Visualization for Storytelling. Explore the narrative potential of data and learn to create engaging imagery that tells a story using analog materials.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Tidying and Categorizing the Data In this lesson, I'll be talking about how to tidy up, categorise, and analyse your collected data. I finished collecting all of my data, so now I need to tidy it up a little bit and make it a little bit easier to work with. This is my dataset on-screen where I've collected all of my data in the spreadsheet that I created from the data collection spreadsheet template. As you can see here, I've answered all of my questions and I've filled out all of the data for every single month that I wanted to collect data. There is a lot of data here. Now that I've col...”
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Course summary for: Analog Data Visualization for Storytelling
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Graphic Design, Infographics, Information Design, Interactive Design
Stefanie Posavec
A course by Stefanie Posavec
Stefanie Posavec is a designer, artist, and author who specializes in data visualization. She studied graphic design at Colorado State University before going on to complete a master's in communication design at Central Saint Martin’s, University of the Arts London. There, for her final project Writing Without Words, she explored ways of visualizing writing styles in literature, which inspired her to pursue a career in book design. After her project went viral, she left her job in publishing to focus on freelance work in the data visualization field.
With over 10 years of experience, Stefanie has worked with clients like the V&A, Wellcome Collection, and National Maritime Museum. She was also Facebook’s first Data Artist in Residence and has received awards for her book project Dear Data. Postcards and sketchbooks from the project are also held in the permanent collection of MoMA, New York.
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