I recently had to put together a collection of tools for "thinking visually" and thought it would be good to share it here. It is basically a collection of tools for you to try. The starting point was finding ways to display quantitative information but we also had to cover the creation of more emotive or softer images that communicate an idea, maybe very effectively, with less reliance on the numbers. My mind is always drawn initially back to this image, which plots Napoleon's Army's size, position, direction and even the weather into one chart. From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Joseph_Minard and of course the books of Edward Tufte . But we also looked at images such as this one, that looks at data gathered about attitudes to the Hijab in Denmark. I find it interesting that even though I can't see what the percentages refer to in the image below, I am blown away by the idea of a headscarf pie chart. In some ways, it almost doesn'...
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