Week 11 Datavisualization

In this week lecture we learned how datavisualization has became one of the most atractive ways of showing the content to the user, everything began with the code which contains all the information that is gonna be shown, but in a nonunderstandable way.

After or before the code comes the design which depending on the kind of interactivity that we want to application.

Some of the most important features that datavisualization must have are: exploration, layering, interactivity, avilability of data, comparison of datasets.

During the tutorial we had time to analize some of the different options in datavisualization contained on a list of delicius.com, during this process of analizing the content we were asked to explain one of the sites, the

site I chosed was the differences between the people that lives on Manhattan island on NYC at daytime, and nightime, I have to say that it was not a very interactive application, but was very interesting to see how at nightime almost anyone lives on the island beacuse of the expensive prices.

http://strawdogs.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/new-york-night-and-day/