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Wikipedia Gender Index (WIGI), uses Wikidata to produce gender-related statistic on Wikipedia Biographies
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Submit an infographic to Wikidata Visualisation Challenge if Time #19

Closed notconfusing closed 9 years ago

notconfusing commented 9 years ago

https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:%C3%96ppna_data_2015/Visualisering/T%C3%A4vling

What

Data from, or about, Wikidata must be included in the visualization.
Visualizations that combine this with other Open Data sources are encouraged by the jury.
It is allowed to reuse resources produced before the competition starts, i.e. you do not have to start from scratch.

May 4, 09.00 - June 1, 23:59 (CEST)

fsoong commented 9 years ago

oh dear

KomalPatel-github commented 9 years ago

oh dear indeed!

On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 12:15 AM, fsoong notifications@github.com wrote:

oh dear

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Masssly commented 9 years ago

This should be fun! But looking at the time...

notconfusing commented 9 years ago

@Komchi I assigned this to myself, but if you want to take a shot at designing and then @fsoong can give you input I think that's a good use of time. @Masssly ''It is allowed to reuse resources produced before the competition starts, i.e. you do not have to start from scratch."

So maybe a good way to do this is to take one or more of the graphics that has already been made in the original paper, and then use the same data, but redesign the style and arrange a few together so that it tells a more compelling story. I think the best ones would be %-female by date of birth, and the world map. But I give you creative leeway.

fsoong commented 9 years ago

Sounds like a good plan. I'm planning to share with Komchi some online tutorials for information design basics and designing landing pages in photoshop. Infographic tutorials tend to be more print-based, which would be less translatable to our main data viz / dashboard project :)

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 3:17 PM, Max Klein notifications@github.com wrote:

@Komchi https://github.com/Komchi I assigned this to myself, but if you want to take a shot at designing and then @fsoong https://github.com/fsoong can give you input I think that's a good use of time. @Masssly https://github.com/Masssly ''It is allowed to reuse resources produced before the competition starts, i.e. you do not have to start from scratch."

So maybe a good way to do this is to take one or more of the graphics that has already been made in the original paper, and then use the same data, but redesign the style and arrange a few together so that it tells a more compelling story. I think the best ones would be %-female by date of birth, and the world map. But I give you creative leeway.

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KomalPatel-github commented 9 years ago

Yeah I would love to give it a try.

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 3:47 AM, Max Klein notifications@github.com wrote:

@Komchi https://github.com/Komchi I assigned this to myself, but if you want to take a shot at designing and then @fsoong https://github.com/fsoong can give you input I think that's a good use of time. @Masssly https://github.com/Masssly ''It is allowed to reuse resources produced before the competition starts, i.e. you do not have to start from scratch."

So maybe a good way to do this is to take one or more of the graphics that has already been made in the original paper, and then use the same data, but redesign the style and arrange a few together so that it tells a more compelling story. I think the best ones would be %-female by date of birth, and the world map. But I give you creative leeway.

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Masssly commented 9 years ago

@notconfusing I am looking at how we can arouse and keep the interest of the jury for a while. The "world map" and "female percentage of biographies by culture" seem more related than the "world map" and "%-female by date of birth". Do you have a reason why you chose the latter? :thought_balloon: Also, I haven't graphed but I can imagine how kindling " female percentage of biographies" by "culture" by "date (era) of birth" will be. BTW where can I find the interactive version of the world map?

notconfusing commented 9 years ago

I think they're all good candidates if they got a face lift and were weaved into an info graphic. On 19 May 2015 08:58, "Mohammed Sadat Abdulai" notifications@github.com wrote:

@notconfusing https://github.com/notconfusing I am looking at how we can arouse and keep the interest of the jury for a while. The "world map" and "female percentage of biographies by culture" seem more related than the "world map" and "%-female by date of birth". Do you have a reason why you chose the latter? [image: :thought_balloon:] Also, I haven't graphed but I can imagine how kindling " female percentage of biographies" by "culture" by "date (era) of birth" will be.

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fsoong commented 9 years ago

Hi All, I spoke with with Komchi over video chat this past Wednesday and suggested he work with Max with daily syncs or 3-5 times a week check-ins. Like over email as he had done with me and others for the initial project. I shared with him quite a few resources, but am editing my list (I'm wary of there being too many resources out there and want to make sure I pick out good ones for good reasons.) I will post these later today. For now everyone should review what an infographic is on Wikipedia at the very least: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infographic. Note it's part of a series for "Data Visualization" that you can link to using the righthand navigation. The WIGI project is an "interactive data visualization."

I told Komchi, he and Max should plan two review sessions for Masssly and I to attend and give feedback. The first in-progress review sometime this Sunday and a final review next Friday. That way you have plenty of time to take in our feedback and preparing the final submissions before June 1st.

fsoong commented 9 years ago

Okay, to start with what is an infographic and how to make a good one is to know there are many, many bad ones. I start with posts by Column Five, one of most well-known agencies creating the prettiest infographics you see going viral today (including almost all the ones used on http://good.is).

Any of the other ColumFive blog posts are recommended too. I do not recommend following most of the guides you find by immediately Googling. Since Column Five is an agency selling infographics, they don't provided as much information on how to make them, but many people who create infographics are even worse—selling you ads.

Next, Information Design 101— the foundation of infographics and data visualization

But you can read and learn all the basics without being able to produce anything of that level. To achieve that requires practice. Here are some using Photoshop, but I can dig up some tutorials for Sketch if need be.

And other Photoshop tips form me:

This is more for Komchi. Skillshare classes are of varying quality and are not all taught by experts, but are all fairly in-depth. Also some classes you learn how to critique and have your work critiqued.

More Advanced:

notconfusing commented 9 years ago

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WIGI_Infographic.png

fsoong commented 9 years ago

To others: please do not share on social media or publicly just yet! There are a few touches I'd like to work on still and add with Max. If you email to friends or family make sure they know it's a submitted draft :)

Masssly commented 9 years ago

@fsoong Can you do something about the fonts? See https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/wigi-project/HXiXSfCtaHE

QEDK commented 9 years ago

Convert the picture to .svg so that it doesn't lose quality and its size can be adjusted. :)

fsoong commented 9 years ago

I don't think I need to make the fonts larger or convert the picture to .svg. SVG is still not standardized format and renders different across different browsers. I've had infographics become unreadable in SVG. If anything, I want to explore making the text darker in certain areas.

It'd help me though if you guys could use MS paint to draw on the graphic and point at which areas seem too small or hard to read. Please post your comments in this new issue below. This issue is closed.

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