Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/M006662/1
Introduction to data visualisation
Training Grant Award
- Lead Supervisor:
- Dr JMR Hughes, University of Oxford, Continuing Education
- Grant held at:
- University of Oxford, Continuing Education
- Science Area:
- Atmospheric
- Earth
- Freshwater
- Marine
- Terrestrial
- Overall Classification:
- Atmospheric
- ENRIs:
- Biodiversity
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Global Change
- Natural Resource Management
- Pollution and Waste
- Science Topics:
- Computer Graphics & Visual.
- Human-Computer Interactions
- Bioinformatics
- Environmental Informatics
- Abstract:
- Summary Whether it is the hockey stick graph representing changes in the temperature record, the tree of life depicting the emergence and structure of biodiversity or the predictive layout of the periodic table, data visualisations are an essential catalyst for triggering human understanding, involvement and intervention with abstract data and ideas. This 4 day hands-on course will empower participants to transform data resources into effective data visualisations that will enhance all areas of their scientific research and its dissemination. Participants will develop a set of highly transferable and highly desired skills and knowledge across informatics, design, and communications which will enable them to design and create visualisations that will enable a wide variety of tasks that involve data. The course explores how visual representations of data and information enable discovery and how visualisations can facilitate communication between individuals and specialist and non-specialist groups. By the end of the course participants will understand the principles, terminology, methods and resources essential to making effective visualisations alongside the practical skills to create effective data visualisations. Participants will learn how to use the Processing programming environment (www.processing.org/) that complements statistical and mathematical software environments with a professional standard environment for visualisations and graphics. Participants will develop a personal project on their own data and explore a number of case studies that marry practical strategies for producing effective visualisations with fundamental topics in visualisation (including pre-attentive perceptual processes, Gestalt principles, visual variables, diagram types, affordances). This combination of teaching, activities and a personal project will develop visual thinking and problem solving skills alongside the core teaching components, and develop the participants' independence in further learning in visualisation and its related disciplines. Uniqueness The course is convened by an internationally renowned team with visualisation expertise spanning geo-visualisation, user interface design, visual analytics and uncertainty visualisation. The team has a vast experience of working with scientists, and many of the stakeholder organisations NERC scientists would wish to work with (e.g. NGOs, LGOs, Businesses, Corporations, Public). This proposed course builds on a variety on courses, tutorials and training workshops that have been delivered at the University of Oxford and City University London, and at a variety of international venues and conferences. Throughout, the course will have a high tutor to student ratio and students will have access to a variety of high quality digital resources. Visualisation is rarely part of scientific training, despite its well established position within computer sciences, design, informatics and architecture. The course is unique in bringing this visualisation expertise into scientific training in terms of scientists' day to day work. Impact Well-designed visualisations are amongst the most engaging and shareable outputs of scientific research and so can enhance all of a scientists activities from acquiring and exploring data and analysing models, to the visual analytics used to reason across research and decision making activities, all the way to scientific reporting and external communications. As such, this course fills a skills gap that will enhance the participants' capacity for impactful research and their future employment prospects, whilst providing skills that are highly complementary to NERC investments in scientific training, research and impact. Visualisation is a highly multidisciplinary subject and the participants will develop knowledge and communication skills that will enable them to work at the boundaries of science, communications, design and informatics.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/M006662/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Doctoral Training
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Advanced Training
This training grant award has a total value of £35,339
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
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| £35,339 |
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