Questions tagged [data-visualisation]
Questions about the use of illustrations to convey data. This is including but not limited to diagrams such as charts, maps, plots; and general graphics with underlying data.
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Software for producing yearly cycle illustration
My work is looking to create illustrations depicting our organisation's different processes and events occurring annually. I could create this in illustrator, but I would rather use some sort of ...
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When designing, what techniques can be used for determining if the right amount of "fluff" has been added?
Fluff (N.): something inconsequential
Source: Merriam-Webster Online English Dictionary
In design, this is often viewed as unnecessary ornamentation. In web design, where load times are important, ...
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How to place a 3d object in a photo with correct measurements?
I want to make a Infographic, which shows how much water is flowing down a river per sec.
To do this I want to make a photo near the river and place the amount of water with imaginary 1m³ bricks.
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What characteristics make a graph look professional?
I'm documenting a technical/scientific project, in which I'm needing an extensive amount of graphs to represent the data.
I would like this graphs to be as clear and representative as possible. Of ...
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Please guide me for UI design Workflow
I have just started design for mobile apps. My question is: in the beginning of the design process I have so many ideas, but I am not able to decide which one visually looks great... Designing all ...
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How to visualise two-dimensional scientific data-points in a chart... in grayscale?
I am not sure whether this is the correct site for this question. The model comes from Physics, the data comes from computational physics, the plot is made with LaTeX but my question is about the ...
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What is good graphic visualization of a climate diagram
Does anybody know about a nice climate diagram visualization, incorporating more information than the example on Wikipedia:
For example also data like, snowfall, humidity, hail, fog, thunder and so ...
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Alignment for report columns
I am currently creating a Crystal report, but having difficulty on how to align certain columns. I have a Social Security, employee_name, Check Number and Amount.
I understand that the amounts ...
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How can I display extra information in a table?
So I recently got this theme and I have been modifying it to fit my needs for the application and I came across a piece of design in which I am unsure about.
I have a table which contains bans, these ...
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Making terrain contours in Illustrator?
I'd like to take the fantasy world map I created to the next level as a way of buffing my illustrator skills and portfolio.
Currently, it's a flat political map like this map of Canada for example.
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How can I develop a system to translate ideas into Ideograms?
I am in the process of creating some infographics for some design thinking methods. I need to translate sometimes complex (but with common themes) ideas into visuals.
To put it a different way, why ...
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How many variables can I represent graphically before losing clarity?
Let's see if I can explain this graphical economy question I have correctly. I'm new to the field and it's worth mentioning this is pure curiosity, and my examples are - as you will be able to tell ...
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Creating an interactive rotating image from multiple JPEGs
I am looking to create an interactive image of a machine. I will be taking incremental photos of it rotationally at two different distances from the machine (approx. 20ft and 5ft away).
Once I have ...
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How to graphically represent click data
I have a data which contains the number times users visits a page and the time of day the visit occurs. I would like to display this data visually but I don't know what is the best representation of ...
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How to create beautiful (block) diagrams [duplicate]
I would like to include a similar picture in my bachelor's thesis.
I am looking for tips on how to make this (or in general) diagram(s) more beautiful.
Can you recommend programs for creating such ...
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How to display available dates?
I have an end user who is the admin for a website and they insist on showing the available dates to the customer. They are showing the showings literally like this:
2-Mar, 9-Mar, 16-Mar, 23-Mar, ...
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How to conceptualise and generate visualisations with many points interconnected via Bézier curves?
Can someone uncover the design process behind social network visualisations such as http://inmaps.linkedinlabs.com – and how those interconnecting Béziers are generated?
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How can I arrange words into a shape to make a "word cloud" design?
I want to create a T-shirt to commemorate the tenth edition of a gaming convention and I had the idea to have the names of all the games that were played during the convention form a big roman numeral ...
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Using which software can I produce network maps of this kind?
I found this image few years ago. I don't remember where I found it but it really helped me in teaching all the networking concepts to my students. I mean, picturing network like this has somehow made ...
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Advice on becoming vector proficient
Background
I'm a complete novice and not very tech savvy but I'm interested in teaching myself how to create and design images in a vector based format.
What I need to do
I would like to get ...
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How can I display sound distortion through images?
I've become very fascinated with the idea of digital destruction through a physical medium. There was PBS video on youtube How Does Glitchy Art Show Us Broken Is Beautiful?
Example Pieces:
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How can I show a database graphically?
I would like to provide a non-technical, intuitive visualization of my database for people who are familiar with the underlying data, but not database design. The figure will be included in a journal ...
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3D Facial Expression Database
Can anyone suggest 3D Face Expression Database which has basic expressions like happy, sad, surprise, anger, disgust, ...
I am trying to simulate different expressions on a 2D face image.
As a start,...
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Header for free, Open Source plugin (translates UI into user language)
We're about to publish a free, open source plugin that translates the WordPress admin UI into the users language. This plugin will be freely available in the official wp.org plugin repository. Now we ...
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Original creative ways representing users photo thumbnails on a social media homepage? and examples
**What are creative ways of representing user profile pictures on a homepage ( or you can call them avatars but they will always be a real small version of a real photo like 80x80 pixels in size. Are ...
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Why is my character lost in the background?
I am designing and developing a 2D-platformer and I'm having trouble with the look and feel of the game. The game is about an inventor who is kidnapped for warfare. Theme: Childish but sad.
There are ...
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How would you represent i/o as an icon?
This has caused me to lose sleep and not get my weekly pat in the back from my boss.
We have a web hosting related product that consists of database, bandwidth and I/O sub-products.
To represent the ...
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What are some free software packages for producing attractive scientific plots?
The plotting capabilities of MATLAB leave much to be desired. Right now the python matplotlib library has my attention, but I wanted to ask those of you on Graphic Design if you had any other ...
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Emphasize diffrence in a chart
I need to present a chart (not really specified more than that right now) that will consist of two almost equal parts (ie ~50% each). However, a pie-chart would almost always look about the same, ...
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Moodboards: how to use them in a workflow?
I'm new to design and have started working with moodboards. It seems like a really essential part of a design workflow.
How best do you use them?
What is a good process for compiling one?
What is in ...
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How do I select a high-contrast color set for a map?
Obviously, black & white are the highest contrast. I also want 2 sets of colors, so that regions on the map can be colored with good contrast. For instance, one region might be red, another blue,...
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In Fireworks CS5, How to hide all fills/strokes and show only paths (wire view)?
I have a complex vector graphic with overlapped shapes and I've been looking for a View mode that allows me to see only the paths. I guess it's called wire view or path view, but I can't find that ...
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How to visualize data? Which software should I use?
I'm interested to know what sort of software - beyond basic standard graphics out of Excel - people use to generate data visualisations.
Do you craft things by hand and then build them in something ...
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How to graphically represent customer flow in indoor environments?
I'd like to know how can I represent human streams and paths in indoors facilities. Where to are people moving? How do they move and in which proportions?
Something like Aaron Koblin's Flight ...
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Printing Visualization - Spot UV
I recently got a lot of offset printing jobs and with them the ability to choose options that were not available to me before.
So the Problem is that I generally have to make a presentation of the ...
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data visualization over time
I have a decent sized set of data - 500,000 records, each representing an event.
The fields are:
date
time
who did the event
what the event was (there will be say 5-10 type of events)
where the ...
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