My first DATA VIZ!
I finally did it! I just published my first data visualization on Tableau Public - it's a simple treemap of the main social themes that have been popping up in art (books, music, movies) based on the Feb 2, 2019 NYT Arts section. You can see the data vis by going to my Tableau profile: https://public.tableau.com/profile/ioana.s2410#!/
This project was inspired by Nicholas Felton's Skillshare class "Introduction to Data Visualization: From Data to Design" which is an amazing class for thinking about data visualization projects as I'm starting out. He's got a lot of great information that's presented really well and it's taught at a great pace.
While this visualization is hopefully far from the best thing I ever do, I'm so happy it's out!!! Now that the first one is out of the way, my next step is to re-create some visualizations from the MakeoverMonday site. This is a great data vis resource because each week, an article and a data set get published on the site and people contribute their take on the visualization. The purpose of this exercise is that as I'm re-creating these projects, I can pick up on best practices and start incorporating them into my own designs. This learning technique is from Mike Locke, a UX design professional and instructor and I'm excited to try this out! Here's the video of him going through this below:
This project was inspired by Nicholas Felton's Skillshare class "Introduction to Data Visualization: From Data to Design" which is an amazing class for thinking about data visualization projects as I'm starting out. He's got a lot of great information that's presented really well and it's taught at a great pace.
While this visualization is hopefully far from the best thing I ever do, I'm so happy it's out!!! Now that the first one is out of the way, my next step is to re-create some visualizations from the MakeoverMonday site. This is a great data vis resource because each week, an article and a data set get published on the site and people contribute their take on the visualization. The purpose of this exercise is that as I'm re-creating these projects, I can pick up on best practices and start incorporating them into my own designs. This learning technique is from Mike Locke, a UX design professional and instructor and I'm excited to try this out! Here's the video of him going through this below:
The plan is to go through this process once a week for 10 weeks (April 1 - June 9th) by picking one week with an interesting article and data set, find one cool visualization and re-create. During this process I'll try to analyze why the creator made certain decisions (e.g. style, graph type, etc.) and hopefully pick up some great skills along the way. I won't publish them since they're not original work, but hopefully this will allow me the confidence to submit some of my own to MakeoverMonday!
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