Designing with Numbers: from Data Scraping to DataViz

From numbers to design

“Thank you for getting here! I hope you enjoyed learning how to collect data from the web and visualize it together with me. Remember, web scraping allows you to scrape a multitude of different web pages, so get to work! To make organizing your project easier, I have prepared a list of essential steps: • Choose the page on which to collect data • Use Google Colab to collect or web scrape, generating a .txt file. • Use the P5 programming environment to import once you have the .txt file. • Create a visualization that allows you to show data efficiently and, especially, when it is important. • Export this file and host it on your website so everyone can access it!

Now it's up to you! Gather your top images and comments and share your project by clicking the "Create your project" button. Your publication will be part of your portfolio here at Domestika and will be a space for you to showcase your work in the community. What type of information would you like to work with? Come up with new ideas, create alternatives, enrich your creativity. Furthermore, I invite you to give feedback and comment on the work of the creative community. Take the opportunity to network! Whenever possible, I will also comment on work and follow what is happening on the forum. See you on the forum!”

Partial transcription of the video

“Thank you for making it this far. I hope you've enjoyed collecting and visualizing data with me. Don't forget that Web Scraping allows you to scrape a multitude of different web pages. In the course I used cinema data from Wikipedia, but in the encyclopedia there are several other different and interesting topics. It has biology, it has energy, It has history, it has geography. Isn't it worth exploring them? We've also seen data scraping being used to collect data from a book. I used Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. But what other books can we collect? What other authors are you interes...”

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Course summary for: Designing with Numbers: from Data Scraping to DataViz

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (25)
• 1757 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (1h 54m)

• Category

  Design

• Areas

  Graphic Design, Infographics, Information Design