{"id":889,"date":"2015-02-24T05:10:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T12:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/?p=889"},"modified":"2015-02-24T09:29:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T16:29:06","slug":"amanda-cox-at-columbia-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/24\/amanda-cox-at-columbia-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Cox at Columbia University"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday (2\/23\/2015) morning I attended a data visualization presentation by New York Times graphics editor Amanda Cox<\/a> at Columbia University\u2019s Mailman School of Public Health. Amanda presented some great examples from the Times as well as other sources while breaking down her presentation to the topics Scale, Context, Pattern and Annotation Layer. I arrived late and missed the majority of the Scale portion. The following are notes from the presentation\u2026<\/p>\n

Make the data open, make it flexible, present a user with an interface to manipulate the presentation of the data, to see the data in various groupings.<\/p>\n

The power of text: the most common thing that people do on a page is read and by far it is only the top of the page that people read. Most people do not click on buttons.<\/p>\n

The example that Amanda presented regarding pattern is \u201cMapping America: Every City, Every Block\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Form is key to revealing patterns – use of familiar geography to superimpose information employing color, shading, shape and size. In geographic placement of data regarding the House District results one may quickly grasp that urban versus rural areas is decisive.<\/p>\n

Annotation Layer<\/strong>
\nAnnotation should be minimal, no more than a layer of pointers or outlines or brief notes superimposed onto graphics be it image or video. Amanda momentarily turned it over to a video interview with NY Times Science Graphics Editor Jonathan Corum<\/a>:
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