Data Sketches: A Year of Exotic Data Visualisations
summary
Year-long Data Sketches collaboration produces monthly visual projects that reveal concrete lessons: sourcing and cleaning datasets, precomputing layout, and custom SVG work. Examples include 5,000 Olympic gold medals reconciled across sources, 800 rows manually annotated for Lord of the Rings locations, bespoke SVG path math to render flowing chords and fight-lines, and precomputed rotations and offsets to speed browser rendering. Many pieces evolve from ugly sketches into interactive visuals that load and behave as intended.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Start
- 3:54Google
- 4:40Scrape
- 8:00Data can be found in a myriad of places & ways
- 10:31Get a feeling of accuracy & completeness of your data
- 12:42It's OK to precalculate fixed visual variables
- 20:53Sketch the rough visual shape to catch thinking errors
- 24:39code
- 31:51Embrace your tool's advanced functionality
- 37:23The other stuff matters too
- 37:35collaborating
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