Knowledgebase

This page is a child of the Main Impvis Wiki Page. This is the ImpVis knowledge base; it contains all of the information ImpVis has accumulated as a community in order to design and develop effective interactive visualisations for education.

The structure of this page follows the steps of our design and development process closely.

Getting started

These are the suggested steps to take if you wish to know all about how to get involved in the ImpVis project.

1. Read a brief overview of our design and development process.
2. Find out how to get involved with a visualisation project.
3. Understand what it means to work in partnership.

You can follow the links in the pages above to find out more information. Below are listed all the pages in the 'Getting Started' category in alphabetical order.

▼ Getting Started

  Getting involved

  Managing your project on the ImpVis website

  Opportunities to work together

  Our design and development process

  Wiki Template for new project

  Working in partnership

Visualisation design guidance

To create an interactive visualisation for education, you will need to consider the design of your visualisation carefully from several angles. The ImpVis template implements some of our ideas so that you do not need to design your visualisation entirely from scratch. Suggested reading:

1. Which steps to take during the design process.
2. Familiarise yourself with the ImpVis template (hosted on the ImpVis website) so you understand how it can support your visualisation design

Below we list all our further design guidance documents alphabetically, split up into three different categories: education, graphic, and interaction design. Note that we have only just started collating our experience in this section, so not all parts are populated yet - we aim to incorporate all knowledge generated by the ImpVis module students in this Wiki going forward.

Education design

• The visualisation development cycle
• Designing a visualisation

Graphic design

The ImpVis Visual Identity - Ethos

Guidance for coding up visualisations

The link below has technical content on how to get started with the coding side of ImpVis.

Setting up

• Training

• Tutorial for setting up the coding environment

• Getting connected on Github

• Common errors and how to handle them

The Visualisations template

• Vue Components

• 2019 style template

• 2017-2018 style template

The coding process

Look here for tips and help on issues that may come up while you're coding.

• Functionality guide
• Help on HTML, CSS, JS and JS libraries
• Debugging and Console
• Components and Vue additional comments
• Legacy content
• Extra comments for the developer

• Vis template skeleton content

• Design choices skeleton content

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• Skeleton topic 3

Review and publication of your visualisation

• Uploading
• Review
• Versioning
• Creating a collection