Analog Data Visualization for Storytelling
Designing Your Custom Visualization Method
A course by Stefanie Posavec , Designer, Artist, and Author
Joined October 2021
Joined October 2021
About the video: Designing Your Custom Visualization Method
Overview
“Now that you have the skeleton of your visualization set, it's time to develop the visual variables. Here you will learn how to brainstorm visualization approaches for your dataset, selecting your favourite to expand upon in your final drawing.”
In this video lesson Stefanie Posavec addresses the topic: Designing Your Custom Visualization Method, 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
“ Designing Your Custom Visualization Method In this lesson, I'll walk you through the creation of your custom visualisation method for your dataset. Now that you've determined your underlying architecture, you need to come up with the visualisation method that you'll be using to translate all of your data onto graphic elements that will fit into that architecture and then be drawn on the page. You'll be creating a visual variable key where you will be deciding which visual variables you will be using to represent which types of data you have in your dataset. To do this, grab a sheet of pap...”
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Course summary for: Analog Data Visualization for Storytelling
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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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