3. Some easy-to-use visualisation tools
• Find data patterns with Excel conditional formatting
• Map your data with OpenHeatMap
• Create infographics with Piktochart
• Animate our data with Google Motion Charts
• Visualise networks with VOSviewer
4. Some easy-to-use visualisation tools
• Find data patterns with Excel conditional formatting
• Map your data with OpenHeatMap
• Create infographics with Piktochart
• Animate our data with Google Motion Charts
• Visualise networks with VOSviewer
5. Some easy-to-use visualisation tools
• Find data patterns with Excel conditional formatting
• Map your data with OpenHeatMap
• Create infographics with Piktochart
• Animate our data with Google Motion Charts
• Visualise networks with VOSviewer
6. Some easy-to-use visualisation tools
• Find data patterns with Excel conditional formatting
• Map your data with OpenHeatMap
• Create infographics with Piktochart
• Visualise networks with VOSviewer
8. Excel conditional formatting
• What you need
• A copy of Excel 2000 (Windows or Mac OS X)
• Some spreadsheet data (numbers, text, or both)
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• Identify duplicates or unique values
• Highlight cells according to rules you define (e.g. top 10%, above average)
• Add data bars to cells
• Add icon sets (e.g. traffic lights to show values above and below user-defined
thresholds)
• ... essentially a tool to explore tabular data and to help you and your
readers to pick out what really matters
12. OpenHeatMap
• What you need
• A good internet connection and a browser
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• Project any data that comprises a location and a number onto a zoomable
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• ... offers a more meaningful way to present spatial data
14. OpenHeatMap location plus data
• Data format
country wine production*
Italy 46,245
France 42,582
Spain 41,583
Germany 9,991
Romania 6,786
Portugal 5,620
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• Create an infographic and tell a story using numbers
• Summarise and present a lot of complex information on a single sheet
• Design principles are already embedded in templates: you do not need to be
a graphic artist!
• ... a great way to clear your head and really get to the nub of what you
are trying to say (and impress)
25. VOSviewer
• What you need
• Free software download at www.vosviewer.com
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• Make the relationships between members of a network visible
• Import search results from the Web of Science and automatically generate
maps of the literature
• Explore relationships between papers, journals, authors and institutions
• ... understand the structure of complex networks, revealing hidden
relationships
