Data Visualisation Flashcards
Tabular Data
Data on a table
e.g. all movies
Cross Tabular
Linked Categorised tables
e.g. SQL, directors
Perceiving
Colours, the natural impact of a graph.
Interpreting
Is there enough information to understand what the graph is doing?
E.g. axis labels, scale, title
Comprehending
What the data means
TNOIR
Qualitative
.Textual
.Nominal
.Ordinal
Quantitative
.Interval
.Ratio
Textual
Describing in words e.g. written reviews
Nominal
Categorisation without order e.g. the books are in: English, French, German etc.
Ordinal
Categorisation with order e.g. the coffee was: Good, Medium, Bad
Interval
Scale with an arbitrary zero value e.g. temperature, shoe size, dates
Ratio
Scale with a non-arbitrary zero value e.g. distance, age, speed etc.
Temporal
To do with time,
Cleaning data
Getting rid of nulls, rows with nothing in them, typos, incorrect data types
Marks
visual elements such as bars or points
Attributes
characteristics of marks
e.g. size, colour
Colour
Differentiating data using colour
Saturation
Differentiating data using saturation
Scale
Differentiating data using scale
Quantising
Converting continuous data to discrete.
E.g. 1-100 age scale becomes 10 groups 1-10,11-20,21-30 etc.
Distortion
Making data less easy to read in order to distort its meaning. E.g. a 3D pie chart where the slice closets to the observer looks bigger than it is.
Integrity
Source, access, change transparency