Vizzing Data

While we are waiting to know the name of the next US President, I created this data visualization to give a brief and easily searcheble story of Us Presidential Elections. This viz goes from 1916, when Woodrow Wilson triumphed over the republican Charles Evans Hughes, to the rielection of Barack Obama in the 2012. There have been several landslide presidential elections in US history, as this viz shows. In 1936, FDR carried 46 states, and in 1964, LBJ carred 44 states. Both Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan carried 49 states, in 1972 and 1984, respectively.

Who will be the next? Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump?

This viz was also shared by Tableau Software, togheter with other beatiful #ElectionViz at this link: https://www.tableau.com/election2016?hootPostID=2867061b245ada87b26a38934a5aee51#landslide

Click below and go to the interactive Viz!

This project was quite important for me. I was looking for a topic in the humanities, to create a dataviz for my thesis. Speaking of data in the humanities is problematic and controversial. In most cases the humanistic information relies on records, whether newspapers, books, magazines, articles, schools, colleges, maps. Any record of human experience can be a source for humanistic scholar, in contrast, for example, a scientist. That's why the humanities information is so peculiar. Must often deal with analog data, not discrete, they need to be translated into digital format to be used and processed. Moreover these data are usually part of a semiotic system that transcend physical measures.

Looking for a purely cultural topic for this dataviz, the first inspiration is actually came from an element I always had in plain view. The wallpaper chosen on my pc's desktop. Nighthawks, a painting by Edward Hopper, realized in 1942 and considered the most famous work by the American artist. So the idea was to explore the life, works, and as much as it were possible, of the American painters.

The first thing to do was to select the American artists to include in my viz. After some research the selected artists were: Andy Warhol, Edward Hopper, Paul Jackson Pollock, Roy Fox Lichtenstein, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, Keith Haring, George Wesley Bellows, Georgia O'Keefe, Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, Charles Sheeler, John French Sloan, Winslow Homer, Richard Diebenkorn and Frederic Sackrider Remington. Secondly it was essential to define what information was necessary to built the dataset with Excel. It was important to enable users to be able to really explore the viz and discover little by little interesting information on painters, as in the tradition of any good data visualization. The goal was not only to present graphs and simple data. Nothing is more representative of a painter unless his works. This is why I felt it was important to leave a space even to their paintings, in an attempt to create a kind of small interactive museum.

The central area of the viz is dedicated to the auctioned pieces. The chart type I chose is a scatter plot. The idea of using the brush stroke (with different colors according to the author) as indicative form of various pieces is a decision that must be justified. In a static viz this kind of chart would lose much of its effectiveness, making informations of the paintings sold at the lowest price virtually unreadable. I privileged the aesthetic appearance, aware that the tooltips and the table next to the chart, showing the title, price and author of all the pieces, would allowed to remedy this shortcoming.

The dataviz was then saved and published on Tableau Public, so that can be downloaded and shared by anyone. It received a mention as Viz Of The Day by Tableau Public, and is so inserted in the gallery section of the site and publicized online on September 15, 2016.

This is the description of my viz, made by Tableau Public:

Filippo Mastroianni's viz shows off American Painters and their works, covering auction prices, artist birthplaces and life spans, and even shows self-portraits of the artists themselves. What a masterpiece!

Click below and go to the interactive Viz!

My mind often travels to the Middle Earth. For this reason I decided to create a dataviz ispired by Lord of the Rings and J.R.R. Tolkien's books. I looked at the frequency of characters mentions in Lotr. I created three bar charts to show the frequency in each chapter of the trilogy. Than I realized other 3 charts, trying to make them similar to a book (just for an aesthetic choice). In these graphs I reported the mentions in every single page of the books, so that it looks immediatly the presence of the characters throughout the story.

In addition to this I showed all my 22 characters the best I can, underlining some of their attribute, like name, race, culture. On the right you can also read the first quote of the trilogy in which the character was mentioned.
Take a look and have a nice trip in the Middle Earth!

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In Italy we voted for the referendum on Environmental Law, which regulates offshore drilling operations, on April 17, 2016. Consultation was wanted by 9 regions, concerned about the environmental consequences and the possible repercussions on tourism. Basilicata, Campania, Calabria, Liguria, Marche, Molise, Puglia, Sardinia and Veneto.

The question was related only to transactions already in place within 12 miles, because it was already forbidden to start new activities within this limit with the Legislative Decree no. 152.

I realized this graphic starting from data released by the Ministry of Economic Development. I wanted to point out all the marine platforms and similar structures present in Italian seas, paying attention to the 12-mile limit.

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Be a Journalist in Russia is not as in many other countries. Wars, crimes, terrorism, political assassinations. These are all the dangers that a Russian journalist (or a foreign correspondent in Russia) must face.

The Committee to Protect Journalist collects data on journalists disappeared in the various corners of the world. The organization is independent, nonprofit and promotes press freedom worldwide. They defend the right of journalists to report the news without fear of reprisal. My analysis was concentrated on Russia. The dataviz tells a country full of contradictions and reporters' stories that have lost their lives in recent years.

This dataviz has some mistakes in graphic choices. It's one of my first projects, and I was not yet aware about visualization and its rules. For example a treemap is not the best choice to represent small numbers. But I want to observe my evolution, also with my mistakes.

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An earthquake, measuring 6.2 ± 0.016 on the moment magnitude scale, hit Central Italy on 24 August 2016 at 03:36:32 CEST (01:36 UTC). Its epicentre was close to Accumoli, approximately 75 km (47 mi) southeast of Perugia and 45 km (28 mi) north of L'Aquila. There were severe damage especially in the town of Amatrice, near the epicentre, and in Accumoli and Pescara del Tronto.

That sad day I tried to quickly map the earthquake with a simple map. I dowloaded the data that I needed on INGV's site (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia). Here you can find a costantly uptated list of all the shocks. You can choose the area in which you are interested, between Italy, Mediterranean and World. This site is particularly useful in case of italian events.

I used the Tableau's mapbox service to customize my map, in an attempt to show all the comunes involved the best I can. This dataviz is really simple. A map in which every circle means a shock and is size the magnitude of the shock.

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This is one my first projects, related to Middle East and Oil Production in this area. I wasn't good enough with tableau at that time, but I tried to visualize a dataset created starting from a file downloaded from Eia portal (U.S. Energy Information Administration). I realized that more than half of the world's proven reserves of hydrocarbons are concentrated in the Persian Gulf, which produces a third of the total production of oil and two-thirds of world exports.

This dataviz was created to support an article about Middle East and is geopolitical importance. The piece traces the history of oil exploitation, with a focus on the activity of Enrico Mattei, who believed that the Italian development has been held back by US companies. The article can be read at this link: http://www.uskebasi.com/2016/03/medio-oriente-petrolio.html

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Cartoonist, animator, screenwriter, director, film producer, animator. Hayao Miyazaki has also worked on series of very famous anime, as Lupin, Heidi, Anne of Green Gables and Future Boy Conan. Something more than just cartoons for kids and teens. The movies of Miyazaki have everything you want to find.

That's all (or almost) Miyazaki in the dedicated infographic.

One of my greatest passions are cinema and movies. I'm also a contributor and journalist for Cinefilos.it, a website that deals with this topics. One of my post on my blog was about the fight at the box office between Marvel and Dc Comics, in a world increasingly characterized by cinecomic.

One of my infographic concerned how much the superheroes earned at cinema. This visualization is dated November 11, 2014.

Robin Williams died on August 11, 2014. He was a great actor, comedian, screenwriter, capable of reaching the highest award, the Oscar, in 1998, with his performance in the film Good Will Hunting. An Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, but alsothree nominations for Best Actor, as well as three Golden Globe Awards and numerous other awards.

I retraced his career with an infographic.

My second infographic was about the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). I am really interested in Geopolitics, and i needed a visualization to summarize an article on this terroristic organization. The infographic is nothing special. Is a simple summary of what I wrote in my piece, analyzing the phenomenon of Islamic terrorism. Also this infographic is made with the help of Easel.ly, Infogr.am and Gimp.

My first approach with visualization was more then 2 years ago, when I was looking for a graphic to assist an article about all the wars around the world at that time. The most important thing was to map (also very vaguely) events, to show the most dangerous places in the world. At that time I was never been interested in visualization, and I had never heard of softwares like Tableau.

The first open source tool I used was Easel.ly, where is possible to create and share visual ideas in a simple way. This is what I created the first time I tried to visualize something. I don't like it now, obiouvsly. But I want to share it.

My first, raw and ugly infographic!

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