Reflection- Organised information creates visual understanding. As data is a very important part of everything as it is what you're trying to show and explain, so it is incredibly important how it is displayed clearly and easily. The way it can be shown changes how much of the information can be absorbed by the viewer. The different ways that information can be shown can change how it is seen, meaning patterns could be found and discovered, all because the format was changed.
Two main types of visualisation diagrams and visualisations that simplify the information so it can be understood, as they break down the information into bite-sized pieces. The diagrams show information against a scale that can be read and understood, visualisation are less about scale (they can still scale to show information) and more about showing connections and understanding.
When talking about data visualization one of the best-known explanations of this is from Nicholas Felton the creator of the Felton Report. He started in 2005 and released them till 2014 creating 10 in total, he began with a 12-day report that then developed further into a full year. Nicholas Felton is a designer and entrepreneur and after collecting his own data for a year he then started to translate it all into graphs, maps, and statistics. Each report is different with the sale, layout, and data, this report is the last one the 2014 edition I really like this edition, with the layouts showing the data clearly and in different forms like the map with pictures mixed in adding another layer, something I noticed not only in this edition is the hierarchy of numbers and text being used really effectively to grab attention to the measurements. The details in the reports are so beautiful and created with such care and thought, the information is detailed and simply laid out.
This data visualisation is by Nicolas Rapp who is a freelance designer who has a focus on information design and has worked as a senior graphic designer, and art director for the Associated Press Interactive Design & Graphics and has worked at different studios, magazines, and newspapers. The piece is a weather storm warning from the 16 weather events in America that caused at least $1 billion in damages from 1980 to 2017. The way this data is displayed is amazing each vivid colour emphasising a different impact from that event, it is so carefully layers and displayed. I really like the fact that the portrait forces the information to be stacked but it hasn't been separated it bends round creating an eye-catching effect that employs you to look at all the data and follow it around.
