Data Visualization

Hands on!

Por Marcos Vanetta / @malev

Who am I?

  • Marcos Vanetta
  • Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires
  • Knight/Mozilla Fellow
  • The Texas Tribune
  • @malev

Where are we?

  • Question
  • Dataset
  • Idea

Why?

  • Show some context (link)
  • Save some words (link)
  • Easy to explain (link)
  • Tell a story

We are going to start with a CSV file

What is a CSV file?

DataWrapper

  • Houston departments with the most employees
  • https://www.datawrapper.de
  • Problems with formatting
  • Publish!

houston.csv

Making a quick map

  • Checking the dataset
  • Fusion tables
  • Publish!

hospitals2.csv

Texas Enterprise Fund Awards

  • Story about World cup
  • Texas Enterprise Fund Awards (data)
  • Timeline.js

awards.csv

Questions?