aprilush.ro

by Nathan Yau

projects described:

• PEIR - Personal Environmental Impact Report
• YFD - your.flowingdata

nice quotes:

• we want something more than a spreadsheet of numbers. we want the story in the data.

sections:

• data collection
  • make data collection as simple as possible for the user
  • accessibility is key
  • users will forget if they have to wait
• data storage
• data processing
• data visualization
  • make personal data understandable to non-professionals
  • data has to be presented in a way that is relatable; it has to be humanized
  • think of data visualization as a story. the main character is the user, and we can go two ways. a story of charts and graphs might read a lot like a textbook, however, a story with context, relationships, interactions, patterns and explanations reads a lot like a novel.