datavisualisation

This weeks lecture focused on datavisualisation. Datavisualisation is all how expressing information or data in a visual format. Doing this helps to understand what the data means and can help in finding out information that would be near impossible without the visualisation.

The best data visualisations feature a depth of information, interactivity and an attractive visual scheme. These features help with understanding and allows the viewer to easily comprehend what the data is showing. A good use of colour schemes help with this, as it allows people to grasp the data's meaning instantly. For example using red, yellow and green can help when representing levels of good, medium and bad. This colour scheme's meaning is universal, as it is known because of traffic lights and through this, people can under linked meanings associated with it.

So essentially, datavisualisation's can greatly enhance a how raw data can be represented and understood.