Data Visualization

About

Data Visualization is a type of descriptive statistics using visual representations of data in various forms.

Online History

On March 25th, 2008, the subreddit /r/visualization^[6] was created for discussions related to information visualization and datasets. On January 5th, 2009, the /r/dataviz^[5] subreddit was launched for “beautiful & informative representations of the abstract.” That month, the data visualization news blog Datavisualization.ch^[7] was created. In July 2010, data journalist David McCandless gave a TED Talk titled “the beauty of data visualization” (shown below).

On February 14th, 2012, the /r/dataisbeautiful^[2] subreddit was launched for data visualization submissions and discussions. In 2014, statistician Tyler Vigen launched a blog^[1] highlighting graphs showing high correlations between random, unrelated statistics (shown below).

On Xkcd

The webcomic Xkcd often incorporates various data visualizations in comics. On September 27th, 2010, the site^[4] published a dot plot depicting the “frequency with which various adjectives are intensified with obscenities” (shown below).

On November 21st, 2011, a data visualization of currency in dollars, thousands, millions and billions was posted on the site (shown below).^[3]

Web Apps

The community platform Visual.ly allows users to create various types of data visualizastions and infographics.

Related Memes

Infographics

Infographics are images conveying information about a specific theme or topic which often contain graphs and other forms of data visualization.

Search Interest

External References