A journey in digital storytelling
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UX   Data

AI   AR & VR

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Technology is always changing, and with it, the world.

Telling stories with technology

For people to understand data and technology well, we need good interfaces.

Through visualizations, interactive storytelling and serious games.

To connect the virtual to the real.

Tech + Data + Art

We design and build beautiful quality interactive work for clients.

Interaction.

Impact.

Insights.

Data visualizations

Interactive storytelling

Content gamification

Make sense of data

Visualize data to reveal hidden insights and explain complicated trends.

Interactive Storytelling

Build engaging interactive stories, guides and decks.

Content Gamification

Tell deep stories through serious games.

Insights to data

So what is data visualization?

Well, you convert dense data into an easy-to-digest human readable format.

Example 1: Census 2010 data

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Example 2: Dengue data

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Digital Storytelling

Case studies and examples

Visualizing Singapore

Visualizing Singapore

Budget 2018

Budget 2018

Temasek Review Work

NPTD

BASF Elastolit

BASF Elastolit

Cyber Defender

Cyber-Defender

BCN Global

BCN Global

A Study in Moiré Patterns

Song stories

Urbanization Story

Urbanization story

SG Demographics

SG Demographics
Methodology and execution

From concept to delivery to results

Benefits of UX + Data

Marketers

Organizations

UX

 Engage audiences Product design

Data

 Mine marketing data for KPIs Gain business insights and transform business models

Process

  1. Client brief
  2. Research
  3. UX ideas: storyboard, wireframes, design docs
  4. Coding execution
  5. Iteration and refinement
  6. Delivery
  7. Measurement and tracking

Delivery time depends on scope. We often counsel engineering a product iteratively rather than all at once so that it can be refined.

Process

data visualization process

Approaches to data products

  1. Buy an enterprise software tool like EMC Tableu or Qlikview
  2. Use a cloud-based tool like infogram, piktochart, cartoDB, etc.
  3. Get an external agency like V/R to build you a custom piece of art.
  4. Hire your own in-house staff.


All of these have their own pros and cons.

Visualization is part of data science

...and is used more than for marketing or PR

Data Science Disciplines

Using data to solve problems

  1. Data collection, cleansing and curation
  2. Analytics and sense-making
  3. Data modeling and simulation
  4. Optimization and computer-aided decision making

Visualizations help humans spot trends and make sense of data.

Why V/R?

Great UX design and content is not easy to do.

Equally hard to find is deep technical expertise for data products.

And we have both.

V/R founders

Chi-Loong

Kok Keong

UX and content

Web, mobile and data
Ex-journalist / PR / marketing / technology hybrid. Past lives in tech, in-house, agency, and media, like Straits Times, British Telecoms, and GollinHarris. Web and computing guru with a Master’s degree in networking. Past lives in academia and high-tech start-ups like Converscient and Antlabs. Co-founder of web tech company Mobrick.

Outreach

If you have created an interesting data visualization on Singapore and you want to share, please ping me at chiloong@vslashr.com.

If you have an interest in data visualizations or storytelling, join our meetups: Hacks/Hackers SG or Data Vis SG

I'm looking for people to help grow Viz.sg as a community site. Visualizing Singapore one dataset at a time, for all to use. Come talk to me!

chiloong@vslashr.com