📝Andy Kirk

Freelance datavisalisator from the UK

The visualisation of Qualitative Data

Classifying & Transformation	Collecting, Converting and extracting data
Categorical Charting	Charting comparisons and distributions by category
Hierarchical Charting	Revealing part-to-whole and hierarchical relationships
Rational Charting	Exploring correlations and connections
Temporal Charting	Plotting discrete and continuous trends over time
Spatial Charting	Mapping spatial patterns through overlays and distortions

Data types

Qualitative(Media)	Unstructured/Multimeda	Video, photo-imagery, audio
Qualitative(Textual)	Unstructured/Text	Newspaper article, survey comments, quotations, tweets, legal prose
Categorical(Nominal)	Grouping/Memberships	Countries, team names, brands, departments, movie genres
Categorical(Ordinal)	Grouping/Levels	Gold, silver, & bronze medals Liking scale (Agree <> Disagree)
Quantitative(Interval)	Magnitude/Scales	Temperature (C/f), shoe size, BMI score, SAT score(education)
Quantitative(Ratio)	Magnitude/Measurements	Prices, age, populations, distances, durations, incidents

Example

Collecting Data

Example transformation

Make it accessible and readable qualitative data document to categories

Categorical transformations of qualitative data

Examples

Use of terms and condition in fiscal bar-chart

Density plots meaning of word positive or negative

artist visualizes the lengthy terms of services of large corporations like facebook and instagramdesignboom | architecture & design magazine

Rappers, sorted by the size of their vocabularyThe Pudding

How good is “good”? | YouGovYouGov

Representation of smells data

No bar charts thats gives impression of accuracy.