Data Visualization My background • Geography and Cartography • Statistical analysis • Political Science • It has serious consequences for the course • Visualization of spatial data will be included • The basic statistics will be neccessary • It may seem to be a bit complicated • Issue of „design" will be almost neglected • I am not familliar wit up to date journalist practices Overview of course • Several blocs: • Data preparation • Univariate visualization • Visualization of relationship • Visualization of time data • Visualization of spatial data • Visualization of text data • Presentation of visualizations • ASSIGNEMENTSM! (8 for 60 points) • Final assignement Final assignement • Goal is to provide to vizualize some (important) topic • Prefarably using somethnig from content of course • It is important for final grade • 40 points (total is 100) Used software Datawrapper RAWGfaphS . ma pbox 'SfC ^ ^ HICHCHART/ ^9 Flourish* 11210 ++++ + a b | e a u g] 4QB| QIJkQ Bettor p",1^ «* Py(h0n <- Lower (Pri mari 1 y d ra g-an d-d ro p or click-based) Barrierto Entry -> Higher (P ri ma ri ly progra m m ing language;) More *- Limitations Less -> Harder Reproducibility Easier ■IGURE 3.1 Source: Based on image from Jonathan Schwabish, Better Data Visualizations: \ Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks. Introduction • Visualization as academic discipline • Theories • Methods • Visualization as daily practise • How to make a chart from some data Visualization as communication tool • Way how to communicate • Who is talking? • Who is listening? • What is the message? • Issue • Time • Space • Kind of data • What is a channel? • Internet • Static • Dynamic • Paper How visualization works? • Data > „some work" > picture • Something important is missing! • STORY TO TELL!!! • Visual abstraction • Selection of „telling" characteristic of data • Comparison • To give a meaning to certain value Data Information In form of table Metadata: information about data Position Club Played Won Drawn Lost OF OA OD Points Form Row = case i • (Q) Manchester City 6 6 0 c 16 3 13 18 Column = 2 - Liverpool 6 5 i c 15 5 10 16 variable 3 - Brighton And Hove Albion 6 5 0 1 16 8 10 15 ^5 • Name 4 - i Tottenham Hotspur 6 4 2 c 15 7 e 14 • Order 5 - ^ Arsenal 6 4 2 c 11 6 5 14 • Number 6 - AVFC Aston Villa 6 4 0 2 12 10 2 12 7 - 9 West Ham United 6 3 1 2 11 10 1 10 8 Newcastle United 6 3 0 3 16 7 9 9 ooooo ! 9 - 0 Manchester United 6 3 0 3 7 10 -3 9 ooooo Data • Individual • Data are measured on given level • Citizens in opinion polls • MPs • Books, movies,... • Aggregated • Census • Registers • It is not characteristics of unit • Year of establishing of municipality (individu • Unemployment in municipality (aggregate) Most important typology • Sample • Selection from population • Surveys • There is some uncertainty! • Population • All cases are covered • Selection is not„random" Data sources • General data about world •UN: https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic-social/products/ • UNESCO: https://uis.unesco.org/ • ILO: https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/ • FAO: https://www.fao.Org/faostat/en/#home • WTO: https://stats.wto.org/ • WB: https://databank.worldbank.org/ • IMF: https://www.imf.org/en/Data • WHO: https://www.who.int/data • OECD: https://stats.oecd.org/ • Useful links: ourworldindata.org, www.worldometers.info, www.statista.com Politics • Freedomhouse: https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world • Democracy index • Parlgov: https://www.parlgov.org/data-info/ • Political parties - mostly Europe • Idea: https://www.idea.int/data-tools • Various issues • CHES: https://www.chesdata.eu/ • Party positions in Europe and Latin America • Electoral manifesto: https://manifesto-project.wzb.eu/datasets Electoral data • Electoral results: • https://electiondataarchive.org/data-and-documentation/ • http://psephos.adam-carr.net/indexes/index a.shtml • Integrity: https://www.electoralintegrityproiect.com/data-l • Comparative surveys: • https://cses.org/data-download/download-data-documentation/election-studies/ • https://u.osu.edu/cnep/survevs/surveys-through-2012/ • Studies from various countries: • https://search.gesis.org/ Barometer • Europe, Africa, Latin America, Asia • Comparative data • Various quality, timing and scope • Europe: https://www.gesis.org/en/eurobarometer-data-service/home • Africa: https://www.afrobarometer.org/data/data-sets/ • Asia: https://www.asianbarometer.org/datar?page=dlO • Latin America: https://www.latinobarometro.org/latContents.isp Comparative Projects • International Social Survey Programme • Role of Government, Social Networks and Inequality, Family, Gender Roles, Work, Religion, Environment, National Identity, Leisure Time, Health • https://issp.org/data-download/bv-year/ • World Values Survey • Wide set of countries, various issues • https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSContents.isp + European Values Survey • European Social Study • https://ess-search.nsd.no/ Public Opinion Survey Data • World • https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/help/other-data-providers/data-archives/other-worldwide-data-archives/ • https://www.pewresearch.org/tools-and-resources/ • Europe • https://www.cessda.eu/About/Consortium • https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/ • Czech • http://nesstar.soc.cas.cz/webview/ Parliaments • IPU: https://data.ipu.org/content/parline-global-data-national-parliaments • EP: https://data.europarl.europa.eu/en/home • Czech: https://www.psp.cz/sqw/li p.sqw?k=1300 Media • Media monitor (only Czech) https://ezdroie.muni.cz/prehled/hledej.php?dotaz=newton+media&l ang=cs Searching on google • ""- exact combination of words • OR - logical or • "data about media" OR "data about culture" - pages containg first or second or both statements • And - Logical and • "data about media" OR "data about culture" - only pages containg both statements • - Minus "data about media" -culture - ony pages containing "data about media" without mentionining culture • * asteriks " data about *"- data about anything. • () - gives priority to certain word • "data about culture" 2016..2020 - two dots represents number line (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020), works in same sense as OR • filetype:xlsx (other options pdf, doc, xls, docx) • site:unstats.un.org - searching on given page site:unstats.un.org WE ARE DROWNING IN INFORMATION PUT STARVED Of KNOWLEDGE