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Little Big Data Proposal

Proposal :

Being a fan of soccer, I’m going to play around with soccer data & choose one of the following –

1) Compare betting odds to real outcomes of matches and if/how weather influences that.

2) Times it takes attackers to score their first goal after an injury.

3) Weather influencing violent behaviour on the field (measured by number of yellow and red cards)

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Data Source

OpenFooty’s API

UK MET dept’s API

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Tools Used

Website APIs & Processing

Research Assignment

Data Visualization Aggregator

visual.ly followed by visualizing.org(preferred visual.ly since it felt a little more vibrant than visualizing.org)

Visual.ly is website / collection of info graphics and data visualizations and is updated frequently. It’s like dribble but for info graphics.

 

Visualization

http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_harris_tells_the_web_s_secret_stories.html

In this TED talk, Jonathon Harris maps certain emotions gathered from data all around the world (on the internet) and looks at in relation to other variables like weather / day / gender etc.

 

Artist / Designer

Jonathon Harris

 

Visualization Tool

Processing.

From the tools I researched on, Processing seemed to be the most versatile and powerful. It allows you to take the visualization to almost any direction possible.

 

Data Collection Tool

Microsoft Excel

Due to its spreadsheet format, I think Excel is one of the best tools to view and re-arrange data.

 

Discussion Forum

I did not find a specific forum for Data Visualization, but there are many data visualization threads on various websites.  These threads are usually either on websites that host tools for data visualization or websites that share data visualizations.

 

Data Source

data.gov

As a whole, I think data.gov is a very useful data source because of its size. This followed by data from social networks, especially when coupled can be very useful.

 

Data Ethics

http://blog.visual.ly/a-code-of-ethics-for-data-visualization-professionals/

As much as it talks about it ethic, this article is also a guide to visualizing information in general. The cherry on top is the oath at the end of the article.