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DATA
VISUALIZATION
TOOLS
01
04
INTERVIEW
Rafael Hhr
CASE STUDY
Opportunity
Project
02
05
Telling what's
going on
through data
INFOGRAPHY
Data visualization
tools
03
10 data
visualization
tools
01/INTERVIEW
Rafael Hhr:
"Animation is
necessary even though
there is a higher risk of
making a mistake"
The attacks in Belgium on March 23 cut the interview short.
Rafael Hhr had to begin interpreting the information from
Brussels to create infographics for the website of the Spanish
newspaper El Pas. An expert in infographics and a partner at
Prodigioso Volcn, Hhr stresses how important data visualization
is to be able to make sense out of today's information overload.
understand or effectively
inform a work group of the
result of a study or even view
new fields within this data.
Having to go through an
endless Excel file is not the
same as being able to play
around with parameters to
make decisions. Data
visualization helps banks make
decisions, view their
environment, view what's really
out there, understand what
they have and, most
importantly, uncover niches
that have been overlooked.
Visualization is also useful for
customers since having banks
move our money is no longer
enough. Customers demand
transparency and want to
Is animation information?
Animation is mostly misinformation.
Animation marks before and after;
it already offers a process. If you
make a mistake, you are
misinformed. When you turn
information into animated format,
you are dealing with a delicate
operation and, as such, there is a
higher risk that you will make a
mistake.
Is it hard to close a
visualization?
To the extent that data keeps
growing, any visualization will
keep growing and
parameters and interaction
will even change. Interacting
with 20 pieces of data is not
the same as interacting with
2,000. When you create a
user interface to interact with
those 2,000 pieces, they
have already increased to
4,000 and you need to
change the parameters,
segmentation and even the
type of visualization.
Is it better to work with little
or a lot of data?
It's the same. In the end, you
need to summarize the original
Is it very expensive?
Right now yes because we're in
In terms of media
specialized in finance and
economics, which ones do
you think use visualization
well?
I like Financial Times a lot. They
are creating very simple and
small graphics which are perfect
for cell phones, and their
information is easy to
02
Telling what's
going on
through data
that it monitors in 65
languages, representing 98.4%
of its volume of daily
monitoring of news that is not
in English. While machine
translation is imperfect,
according to the author this is a
way to at least identify the
events, people, organizations
and other circumstances related
to violent extremism elsewhere.
Unlike the Pentagon's efforts,
"the GDELT can operate on
world languages in real time,
instead of being limited to a
03
10 data
visualization tools
Having good information and reliable data is only the first step to
achieving a presentation or story that attracts your audience's
attention. There are several online tools available today that enable
us to visualize data more clearly and effectively than if we content
ourselves with presenting them in a traditional way.
Although each tool has its own
features, they generally work by
importing the data, choosing
the visualization options and
then publishing it. Today we're
assured that all the best-known
tools can be used without any
knowledge of programming and
that the graphics they produce
Tableau
This is one of the most popular
free tools for visualizing data
interactively. The graphs it
creates are optimized to be
viewed and to work well in
cellphones, tablets and
computers. Its website includes
video tutorials and live sessions
with Tableau experts to teach
you to use the tool.
https://youtu.be/Z5kQR71yJpE
Datawrapper
Very popular and easy to use
for interactive and responsive
visualizations. It offers
everything from classic bar
charts, tables and maps
through to more complex
visualizations. It also allows you
to customize the colors, fonts
and other graphic elements to
Infogram
This is one of the most widely
used by the media and
educational sites. It has a
selection of templates, icons
and other elements that serve
as support for the graphs, in
which you can also insert
images and videos.
https://youtu.be/oO2injQpF_A
Piktochart
The service specializes in the
creation of infographs. It has a
wide range of over 4,000
templates and elements for
creating graphics, and a very
Google
This is an experimental app
from Google. Its interface may
not be the most attractive, but
it's very powerful, as it is
intended to handle colossal
amounts of data. It also allows
you to work collaboratively
through Google Drive and
visualize the data in Google
Maps.
https://youtu.be/p0xnk9zFQpY
Chartblocks
Chartblocks specializes in
creating graphics that are ready
to share, in a simple way. It has
an "Assistant" feature to select
the most suitable data for each
graph. The visualizations it
creates are optimized in high
quality for all screens and for
high-res printing.
https://youtu.be/1HPm8flGb5w
?list=PLHqEISQBSsC60RxfR4zODLvFn4XMnw
Oo
Thinglink Thinglink
Thinglink is an interactive photo
tool. It allows you to include all
types of elements on a
background image such as
videos, audio, text and links to
other sites to enrich and
complement the information
shown in the photo while you
hover over it.
https://youtu.be/pChlenkNWos
Google Maps
Dipity Dipity
Canva
https://youtu.be/huayzb-0NGs
https://youtu.be/V8jbtv2pegg
https://youtu.be/a3fnrjq_R4M
04
"Opportunity Project":
The White House
shares thousands of
pieces of data
The Obama administration wants government data to be available
to developers to build technological tools that improve the
relationship between cities and their citizens.
The White House has a lot of outdated data hosted in inaccessible
file systems. For this reason, the Obama administration has decided
to create Opportunity Project, based on civilian technology tools,
which makes that large volume of data accessible.
05/INFOGRAPHIC
Data visualization tools
Data visualization turns numerical data into visual
representations so that information can be understood.
Nowadays, there are countless useful data visualization tools.
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Facebook process
More than
350GB
100 millions
of data
of data
Twitter users
send
100%
92%
277.000
571
72 hours
Sprint processes
0f new
250.000
news websites
tweets
1 minute
More than
2 million
Youtube videos
Google
searches
calls
Walmart processes
17.000
transactions
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Information not only needs to be managed, it needs to be managed in a secure and quick manner. This gives
fast and effective access to information to customers, collaborators and employees.
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Storage
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Application
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Transactions
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