Project Types

Nature Research Intelligence's Data Visualisation 'Lookbook' proactively considers a broad range of different project types where data visualisations provide a vital component to the end deliverable. Below is a brief breakdown of these project types, discriminated by using the coloured 'pills' on Lookbook's main library page and individual project pages linked to from it. An individual project may be associated with multiple project types.

Figures & Illustrations	This category covers any individual static visualisation most commonly found in reports, conference flyers and handouts and digital downloadable content. They are not interactive, but an interactive version of the visualisation may also have been prepared. Individual illustrations and figures may also be used in other design collateral such as infographics and factsheets that have broader appeal and interest than the individual image will have in isolation.
Infographics & Factsheets	A collection of individual illustrations that together collectively inform on a wider underlying story to the reader. These are most often designed and created for conference attendances, and manifest them self as physical handouts, and/or digital downloadable content, available from Springer Nature's website, occasionally via topic-specific microsites.
Thought Leadership	An umbrella term for Factsheets and infographics. Often associated with more specific higher-profile external client-led/-focused projects instead of being driven from within Springer Nature and Nature Research Intelligence.
Interactive	Another major visualisation project type within Nature Research Intelligence (NRI). These are more complex than static infographics and factsheets, but may represent user-interactable versions of simultaneously or previously released static illustrations. An inherent advantage of interactive versions of an illustration is that they allow access to a larger volume of more detailed data, and allow users to drill-down and explore our data at a personal, associative, familiar level.
Dashboards	A collective name for online tools, systems and user interfaces created within Springer Nature. Typically, these projects will be focusing on visual design uplift projects on already existing content.
Prototype	Broadly limited to interactive prototypes built for Nature Navigator. These will not be finished pieces of design work, but instead present a working interactive, limited in scope of functionality and data withdrawal given they will access only sample trial test data sets. These will not be linked to APIs or other similar data extraction mechanisms linked to (e.g.) GBQ, Elasticsearch, Python or similar. Their focus is to develop and test functional user interactions, form elements, finalised or in-progress designs in a safe stable environment in advance of productionisation.
Experimental	Projects heavily reliant on a data visualisation component, typically born out of ideas from within Nature Research Intelligence (NRI). The final visual output may be interactive or static content.