Creative Data Visualization for Narrative Designs
The Legend and the Text 2
A course by Federica Fragapane , Information Designer
Joined January 2021
About the video: The Legend and the Text 2
Overview
“Here, I will continue working on the key that will become integral to the reader's understanding of the visuals. Only by understanding the visuals can they extract the data. ”
In this video lesson Federica Fragapane addresses the topic: The Legend and the Text 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Data Visualization for Narrative Designs. Embrace the expressiveness of shapes to turn important information into meaningful graphics that tell stories and resonate with an audience.
Partial transcription of the video
“Okay, let me show to you how... I would do to visualize this population here, population data here. I would take one example like Argentina. and I'm going to put it here. Then I'm going to my table. Let's go here and let's go looking for Argentina. And with copy the population. I want to create a few examples of circles with the PyGraph tool, but using as reference Argentina. so that I have the correct proportion for the first one. So if Argentina is 45 millions. I can show how big is the million circle fifty one and the 100. So you see, i have my three circles. And I will resize them. I me...”
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Course summary for: Creative Data Visualization for Narrative Designs
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Graphic Design, Infographics, Information Design, Interactive Design

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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