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 • •ASSIGNEMENTS!!! (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 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 • •Row = case •Column = variable •Name •Order •Number • • • 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 (individual) •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.electoralintegrityproject.com/data-1 •Comparative surveys: •https://cses.org/data-download/download-data-documentation/election-studies/ •https://u.osu.edu/cnep/surveys/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=d10 •Latin America: https://www.latinobarometro.org/latContents.jsp • • • 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/by-year/ •World Values Survey •Wide set of countries, various issues •https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSContents.jsp •+ 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/hp.sqw?k=1300 • • • Media •Media monitor (only Czech) https://ezdroje.muni.cz/prehled/hledej.php?dotaz=newton+media&lang=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 • Drowning In Information But Starved of Knowledge T-Shirt : ביגוד, נעליים ותכשיטים - Amazon.com