Datavisualisation
This was the final lecture of the semester. It was on Datavisualisation. Michael Honey gave this presentation and as the subject indicates, it was about how to show data and all the different possibilties that it can be done. It was an interesting lecture, however I believe it was more aimed at the students who selected to do the data visualisation option for the final assessment. I had already opted for the geo-narrative option, so it was unable to help with my final assignment. It was an interesting lecture though. He showed some interesting sites which included:
The Feltron Annual Reports - This site is quite cool. Its about a guy who documents his life for a year and presents it in a annual report.
Visualising The Bible - This site was showing the links in the bible. Pretty crazy looking visualisation. Very indepth!
Here is an example of datavisualisation:
There was also some videos he showed with some absolutely amazing data visualisations. My favourite video was of Hans Rosling giving a presentation on the Developing World. If you have a spare 20minutes you should really watch this clip.
Now to my geo-narrative. I started my assignment a couple weeks ago. I went for the geo-narrative so I could write a creative story about my trip overseas in 2007. I went for a 3rd person type story so it could be more enjoyable to the reader. To add to the assignment I went photo looking today. I narrowed it down to the certain pictures I want to use and now it is a matter of putting it all together. Im pretty excited about this one and I hope it comes out just the way I want it.
