I wanted to use this blog called Information Aesthetics to find out which visualisation when the most popular. However when I looked at the RSS feed there was no information regarding how many people have commented on the posts. Once I found this out I had a dilemma of what to do next, my whole project was based around finding out which visualisations were the most popular and how was I meant to do that without the necessary information.
This led me on to looking at their Facebook the group. In this group they share visualisations from their blog and people can comment, share as like these posts. In a way using Facebook as a way to gather my information is better because more people have access to the information and it gives a more wider range of people. It was also good because I can extract the data I need, I can get how many likes, comments and shares have taken place on one posts. This is exactly the information I need to create my visualisation.
I will use Facebook's graph API explorer to be able to extract the data I need. As you can see from the image below it gives you all the data from the post including how many likes a post has, for example this post has four likes.
In my ReadMe I talked about 3 different kinds of visualisation. Scientific visualisation where it is a very basic form, such as graphs and charts. This is a visualisation from a book called 'Discovering statistics using SPSS' by Fields. This is a very simple data flow diagram, this is an example of a scientific visualisation because it is very easy to read. Of course it is not very pretty to look.
The middle visualisation is where there is an equal balance between pictures and information. This type of visualisation is the most popular in today's society. We see this a lot in our day-to-day lives, such as the news, the weather, maps and to show trends .This is an example of a visualisation that appeared in any article wrote by Mosher, called 'Data as Art: 10 Striking Science Maps' which was published in Wired Science magazines.
The middle visualisation is where there is an equal balance between pictures and information. This type of visualisation is the most popular in today's society. We see this a lot in our day-to-day lives, such as the news, the weather, maps and to show trends .This is an example of a visualisation that appeared in any article wrote by Mosher, called 'Data as Art: 10 Striking Science Maps' which was published in Wired Science magazines.
The artistic visualisation is where there is no data available, it is just a picture. Looking at these visualisations it is a very hard to see what data is being represented without being told. This is a piece of artwork by Chris Harrison, it shows all the cross-references within the Bible.
Each of these visualisation have pros and cons, and different types of people prefer different types of visualisation. so I decided to create my visualisation in 3 different formats, therefore catering to everybody's needs. I will also add ability to be choose which visualisation people like the best, therefore determining which visualisation is ultimately the most popular. All of the visualisations will be interactive, when you click on one of them it will take you to the post about that particular visualisation. So not only do the post show you which are the most popular it also allows you to explore the data be used.
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