The Network understanding data visualisation

Hi Dairy,
It's been a pretty tiring week this week with all this data analysis I have to do. I haven't been able to have anyone over for dinner because I have been trying to comprehend all this data on the internet and it has been exhausting!

I don't think I would have survived studying it without some very helpful people who made it much easier to read. Michael Honey (a very clever friend of mine) let me look at some of the data illustrations on his delicious website. I found some fascinating illustrations of data and am very keen to learn how to do them myself. The ones that grabbed me the most were the ones that were interactive and animated. Michael explained to me that there are five main ways to visualise data: colour, size, shape, movement and position. All these factors are ways to help people visualise the data and determine what is "out of place". I was looking at some of the sights that Michael showed me and there were some illustrations that were amazing! There was so much data packed away into such an accessible way! Why can't all data be that easy to interpret!?

There was this fantastic graph that I could interact with and it showed the world's growth throughout the century. It began in 1897 and continued until 2006. The vertical axis was the average living age for a person and the horizontal axis was the a persons annual salary. You could click on what country/ies you wanted to see and could see where how they rose through the century. Japan had a massive decrease in people in WW2 and Australia had a massive boom in people throughout the 50s! It was just really interesting how the data was displayed so patterns can be found and otehr information can be linked to it. Anyways thats all from me diary, night!
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