Principles of scientific Anto Aasa Spring 2020

Mobility Lab Department of Geography Data

• Machine readable • Structured • Unformatted • Stationary • …

What is this? Wall?

Tree? Snake?

Spike?

Rope? Full picture!

https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-draw-an-elephant-step-by-step--cms-29550 Newspaper rock, Painted dessert, Arizona, US 10th century movement of planets Barplot

1350, Nicole Oresme Scatterplot A 1824 Playfair line graph, illustrating of how bread and stock prices are affected by war. (Image: /Public Domain) https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-scottish-scoundrel-who-changed-how-we-see-data „Old“ Excel What is ?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Physical_Map_of_Georgia_(en).svg/1200px-Physical_Map_of_Georgia_(en).svg.png Map? Map?

Harry Beck 1933. Abstract vs real What is map?

• Wikipedia: A map is a symbolic depiction emphasizing relationships between elements of some space, such as objects, regions, or themes. • Geographic map: • Generalized • Reduced • Scale • projection translate 3-dimensional real surface of the geoid to a two- dimensional picture (coordinate system). Wordcloud Otl Aichl

Why we need ?

• Orientation • Spatial patterns, relationships • Error detection Error detection Time series

heatmap Time series Spatial patterns Proportions Relationships Follow the traditions The Minard Map – „the best statistical graphic ever drawn“ (1869) Big Data: Flows

Software: Visone Movement during the Christmas Eve TIME Time geography

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236970189_Visual_explora tion_of_large_animal_trajectories Space-time path

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97ZJ38wDO58

Time

Treemap, Mosaic Intensity spectrum

Latvian fishermens on lake Peipsi Software: R https://vimeo.com/236704637

Fools trap Pie ?

level level Senior researcher teaching staff Master’s post-doc studies

Doctoral studies

MA or PhD supervisor

Doctoral studies MA or PhD supervisor Master’s studies Doctoral studies MA or PhD supervisor Master’s studies post-doc Senior researcher teaching staff post-doc Senior researcher teaching staff Pie chart!

level level

dogs Doctoral studies MA or PhD bears supervisor

foxes Master’s studies

horses post-doc

teaching staff Senior researcher Doctoral studies MA or PhD supervisor Master’s studies Doctoral studies MA or PhD supervisor Master’s studies post-doc Senior researcher teaching staff post-doc Senior researcher teaching staff horses foxes bears horses foxes bears dogs dogs Bump chart: show rankings

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/2oplkj/college_football_playo ff_rankings_bump_chart_oc/ Ranking?

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time Chord diagramm: flows, connections

http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/tableviewer/samples/ Chart junk Try to be funny?

Crashes caused by drunk drivers

(readability…) Nigel Holmes, Time Tuning the picture Magic something

FB shares: 4 FB shares: 25

Population „Empty space“ Out of the Box Thinking

Elevation map of Estonia