The Data Viz Quiz

As an introduction to a talk I recently gave I threw in some slides to form a data viz quiz. They were approximately as follows.

1. Basic Types : name the type of data presentation

1.1

1.2

1.3

1.4

1.5

2. Semantics - What does this represent?

2.1

2.2

3. Historical Personalities - Who created this?

3.1

3.2

While this was just intended as a warm up before the talk, I believe that anyone working in a data driven organization, or with the title 'data scientist' should be able to nail these questions on the back of their passion and curiosity around data.

Answers

1.1 scatter plot

1.2 bar graph

1.3 tree map

1.4 choropleth

1.5 cartogram

2.1 map of deaths from cholera due to contaminated water supply, by John Snow (1813 - 1858)

2.2 map of Napolean's march on Moscow, by Charles Joseph Minard (1781 - 1870)

3.1 Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910)

3.2 William Playfair (1759 - 1823)

 

Comments

[Johan Badenhorst]

Nice quiz, always great seeing historical data visualisations as well. Really enjoying your blog, keep up the good work.

[rtkrum]

Great quiz Matthew! I only missed two. I couldn't remember choropleth (misspelled in your answers) or William Playfair's name.

[Matthew Hurst]

Thanks rtkrum - I fixed the typo.