Increasing Your Visual Literacy
The Visual-Literacy project, run as an e-learning course to increase the effectiveness of presenting information in a visual manner, has a neat reference tool for data visualization. They call it the Periodic Table of Data VIsualizations, and it is a very comprehensive collection of different ways to present data.
Arranged in the format of the periodic table of the elements, this periodic table of data visualization maps out ways to show data, information, concepts, strategy visualization, plus visual metaphors (positioning information graphically to organize and structure information) and various combinations of these in various standard formats.
For example, if you’re looking for a way to visually represent a set of data, you can easily see a list of options:
- continuum
- table
- cartesian coordinates
- pie chart
- line chart
- bar chart
- area chart
- histogram
- scatterplot
- tukey box plot
- spectogram
What’s nice about this tool, however, is that by hovering over any of the boxes you get a popup box showing an example of what that particular method looks like. It’s a great addition to your presentation toolbox.
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