Data Visualization with
University of Manitoba Libraries

Meg Miller - GIS & Data Visualization Librarian

Outline

  1. Who is Meg?
  2. How is research vis. supported by campus libraries?
  3. Example Cases
  4. Infographics
  5. Question time

Who is Meg?


What can I help you with?


  1. Finding spatial data for research or secondary data sets to support your analysis;

  2. Communicating your research through mapping and other data visualization methods.

Library Support

  • Consultations**
  • Workshops & Classes
  • Online Resources
  • External Partnerships

Upcoming Fall/ Winter Sessions

(Wednesdays 12:00 to 13:00)

External Partnerships:


+ + + =

This is a lot.

Consultations

  • Your expertise - be kind to your future self
  • Purpose - exploratory vs. explanatory
  • Audience - expertise, mediation
  • Data requirements - size, residency, privacy...

Researcher Examples


Establishing a Sacral Landscape:
The development of Abbot Ingulph's record of Crowland's holdings in 1805.

Meredith Bacola (Jesuit Studies)

Northern Tornadoes Project.

Paul Durkin (Geological Sciences)

Exterior Space Inventory, Campus Tree Inventory, Integration with work-order management.

Kevin Handkamer (Campus Planning)

How does human-mediated landscape disturbance affect wild bee communities in southern Manitoba?

Emily Hanuschuk (Agriculture)

Temperature and Depression: Evidence from Canadian Health Regions.

Nusrat Jahan (Economics)

Nest-site Characteristics, Population Distribution and Home Range of Urban Merlins (Falco columbarius) in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Justine Josephson-Laidlaw (Environment & Geography)

Mapping Canada's Residential Schools.

National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation & UML

Mapping Perception of French in Manitoba (On-hold due to COVID).

Verónica Loureiro-Rodríguez (Linguistics)

Infographics

Hands on (if you want).

Infographics

  • A collection of imagery, charts, and minimal text that gives an easy-to-understand overview of a topic.

  • Many different software options available.

  • Hands-on: bit.ly/pikto_w2021

Questions


meg.miller@umanitoba.ca

feedback: bit.ly/uml_viz

slides: bit.ly/thompson_w2021