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Everything about Data Visualisation from Zero to Hero.

“A picture is worth a thousand words”

What is Data Visualization?

The pictorial format represents some form of collected data about the world which will help us in making decisions.

 

From a Data Scientist’s prospective, how visualization will help us? 


Why Do we have to Visualize Data?

  • It compresses the huge volume to easy to an understandable level.
  • Many Answers, we can get in many ways in less time.
  • Helps in decision-making.


How Do We Visualization?

The gestalt principle is a human perception principle that describes how we recognize and simplify complex visual patterns.

  1. Principle of figure and ground

    Principle of figure and ground
    Principle of figure and ground
  2. Principle of similarity

    Principle of similarity
    Principle of similarity
  3. Principle of the focal point

    Principle of the focal point
    Principle of the focal point
  4. Principle of continuity

    Principle of continuity
    Principle of continuity
  5. Principle of proximity

    Principle of proximity
    Principle of proximity
  6. Principle of common region

    Principle of common region
    Principle of common region
  7. Principle of closure

Principle of closure
Principle of closure

7 Stages of Visualizing the Data

  1. Acquire: Obtaining data.
  2. Parse: Structuring data.
  3. Filter: Removing noise from data.
  4. Mine: Exploring the undiscovered patterns in data.
  5. Represent: Visualizing the data.
  6. Refine: Improving the visualization.
  7. Interact: Analysing the important one.

Data Science Process

  1. Data understanding process: You can view the different format data in the following types

    • Structured Data
    • Unstructured Data
    • Semi-Structured Data

2. Data preparation process:

    • Clearing unnecessary data like duplicate, corrupt, irrelevant, and inaccurate.
    • Finding the missing data
      • Strategy to find the missing data.
      • Relative proxy data
    • Building the data pipeline

3. Modelling Process: Building a strategy for accessing data and putting it through different visualization tools.

4. Evaluation Process: Studying and evaluating the model data and finalizing the key goal statement and solution.

5. Deployment process: Applying the solution in the business.


We can compare things through

  • Horizontal bar graphs

    Horizontal bar graphs
    Horizontal bar graphs
  • Column bar graphs

    Column bar graphs
    Column bar graphs
  • Stacked bar graphs

    Stacked bar graphs
    Stacked bar graphs

 

A distribution chart can be used for Distribution visualization

Pie chart can be used for representing the composition

Pie chart
Pie chart

Bubble charts and word clouds can be used to visualize different variables.


Data Types for Visualization

  1. Nominal Scale: Categories, types (Fruits: Apple, grapes, banana)
  2. Ordinal Scale: Orderly Representation (AAA, AA, A)
  3. Interval Scale: Fixed interval set (0-5, 10-50)
  4. Ration Scale:(Share value, Employee salary)

Effectiveness of visual Encodings

  1. Detection
  2. Assembly
  3. Estimation

Edward Tufte’s Design Principles

  • Principle 1: Maximizing Data-Ink Ratio

    Maximizing Data-Ink Ratio
    Maximizing Data-Ink Ratio
  • Principle 2: Minimizing Chart Junk
    • Unintentional optical art
    • The grid
    • The Duck
  • Principle 3: Minimizing Lie Factor

    Minimizing Lie Factor
    Minimizing Lie Factor

 


How Do we Visualize Single Measure?

  1. Visualizing basic comparison charts
    • Bar chart

      bar-graphs
      bar-graphs
    • Big number

      Big number
      Big number
    • Histogram

      Histogram
      Histogram
    • Box and whisker chart

      Box and whisker chart
      Box and whisker chart
  2. Visualization for composition
    • Pie chart
    • Icon array

 

 

How Do we Visualize Multiple Measure?

  1. Visual Comparision
    • Stacked bar chart
    • Box chart and boxen chart
    • Violin Chart
    • Strip chart and swarm chart
  2. Visualizing relationship
    • Scatter chart and joint plot
    • Pair plot
    • Heat map
    • Parallel coordinates chart
    • Dual axis chart
  3. Visualizing trends
    • Line chart

Various forms of unstructured text data

  1. Document
  2. Emails
  3. Social media

Visualizing Text Data

  • .txt format
  • Excel format

 

Visual Storytelling

” Data should be able to speak to the eyes, as eye is the best judge of proportion, being able to estimate it with more quickness and accuracy than any other of our organ”

 


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