{"id":1344,"date":"2013-10-30T21:30:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T21:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/articles\/\/"},"modified":"2016-01-19T21:33:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T21:33:42","slug":"on-datavis-judging-leonora-merrys-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/articles\/on-datavis-judging-leonora-merrys-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"On #datavis judging: Leonora Merry&#8217;s advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ttdatavis.onthinktanks.org\/submit-a-data-visualisation\/\">Round 3 of the On Think Tanks Data Visualisation Competition<\/a>\u00a0is currently open for submissions. We&#8217;ve had some great entries in both\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ttdatavis.onthinktanks.org\/round-1\/\">Round 1<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ttdatavis.onthinktanks.org\/round-2\/\">Round 2<\/a>, but this is the last open call for entries (the deadline is\u00a0<strong>20 November at 23:59 GMT!)!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The judges want it to be the biggest and the best round we&#8217;ve had so far so each of them has taken a minute to offer their advice when it comes to data visualisation &#8212; what works, what doesn&#8217;t, and what are they really looking for when judging the data visualisations. We&#8217;ll be posting<a href=\"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/tag\/ottdvjudge\/\">\u00a0their thoughts<\/a>\u00a0over the next couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p><b>In your opinion, what makes a good data visualisation?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A good data visualisation needs to be beautiful, fun and interesting. It should use the aesthetics to grab your attention, and the content to tempt you in further. There should be a clear story or idea that it is trying to convey and it should do no more than tell you that story in an intuitive way.<\/p>\n<p><b>What are your data visualisation pet peeves?<br \/>\n<\/b>Trying to present too much information, getting carried away with the concept and cramming too much in there, not explaining concepts and ideas properly, over-engineering it!<\/p>\n<p><b>What one piece of advice would you give to someone staring down a spreadsheet full of data and who is interested in making it more accessible?<br \/>\n<\/b>Decide on your audience, and ask yourself &#8211; if they could understand one thing about this data, what would it be?<\/p>\n<p><b>Do you have a favourite data visualisation from outside the competition? What is it and why?<br \/>\n<\/b>Hard question &#8211; I love the static visuals in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationisbeautiful.net\">Information is Beautiful<\/a>, especially the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationisbeautiful.net\/visualizations\/left-vs-right-us\">left\/right<\/a>\u00a0one. Maybe it&#8217;s the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wonkcomms.net\">wonk<\/a>\u00a0in me! I also like interactive ones like the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bsa-30.natcen.ac.uk\">British Social Attitudes Survey data sets<\/a>\u00a0done by Soapbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Round 3 of the On Think Tanks Data Visualisation Competition\u00a0is currently open for submissions. We&#8217;ve had some great entries in both\u00a0Round 1\u00a0and\u00a0Round 2, but this is the last open call for entries (the deadline is\u00a020 November at 23:59 GMT!)! The judges want it to be the biggest and the best round we&#8217;ve had so far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[220,190],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}