Data visualisation is, as the name suggests, the digital visualisation of data, and is a way to represent data clearly and effectively (often in a creative way).
A website I've been looking at that has lots of interesting examples of different forms of data visualisation is Visual Complexity, which has examples ranging from things such as maps of locations on Foursquare to visual overviews of music albums (I've still no clue how that works but it does!)
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| Graph using locative devices - Visual Complexity |
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| Graph visualising band Dead Kennedys' five studio albums - Visual Complexity |
I find these examples of Visual Complexity really fascinating but at the moment have no idea how to go about making my own so need to really look into it!
There are some other good sites like We Love Datavis, which is a Tumblr site, that give further examples of what people have done, so I'm going to have more of a look and investigate this data visualisation business...
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