{"id":1012,"date":"2013-07-12T16:59:33","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T16:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2013-07-12T16:59:33","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T16:59:33","slug":"visualization-archives-on-flowingdata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/visualizacao\/visualization-archives-on-flowingdata\/","title":{"rendered":"Visualization archives on FlowingData"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_515\" style=\"width: 171px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/flowingdata.com\/category\/visualization\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-515\" class=\"size-full wp-image-515\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/files\/2011\/12\/FlowingData.png\" alt=\"Os arquivos de artigos sobre visualiza\u00e7\u00e3o de dados\" width=\"161\" height=\"29\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-515\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Os arquivos de artigos sobre visualiza\u00e7\u00e3o de dados<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Download data from a site of interest and learn all you can about it.  Analyze, try to answer your own curiosities, and of course, visualize  it. Try to apply what you&#8217;ve learned from the books and tutorials to  your own data. And I&#8217;m not gonna lie: It might be rough at first and  maybe frustrating, but you&#8217;ll get there.<\/p>\n<p>I gathered some resources a few years ago <a href=\"http:\/\/flowingdata.com\/2009\/10\/01\/30-resources-to-find-the-data-you-need\/\">on where to find data<\/a>.  Some of the sites are dead now, but it should give you a good idea of  where to get some spreadsheets and CSV files. If you&#8217;re lucky, you might  find data sources in PDF format. Have fun with that.<\/p>\n<p>After that, download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.r-project.org\/\">R<\/a>, mess around with a trial version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tableausoftware.com\/\">Tableau<\/a>, get your <a href=\"http:\/\/d3js.org\/\">Data-Driven Documents<\/a> on, or even try to push Excel to the limit.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re still not sure where to begin, find a visualization you  like and try to reproduce it. If it&#8217;s a good one, you&#8217;ll probably  discover that making the graphic is a lot harder than you expected.  Totally normal. The FlowingData <a href=\"http:\/\/flowingdata.com\/category\/visualization\/\">archive<\/a> provides plenty of examples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download data from a site of interest and learn all you can about it. Analyze, try to answer your own curiosities, and of course, visualize it. Try to apply what you&#8217;ve learned from the books and tutorials to your own data. And I&#8217;m not gonna lie: It might be rough at first and maybe frustrating, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,80],"tags":[170],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-mining","category-visualizacao","tag-belo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions\/1014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}