Moving Time Part II

J. Hathaway

Review

Case Study 9: Interacting with time

Take 10 minutes to brainstorm with your table what the data inputs are and what visualizations you would like to create?

  • What mutations or summaries will you need to do?
  • What difficulties do you expect?
  • Do each of the task items make sense?

Task 18: The US Grocer (KR)

Visual Perception

Rauser on Cholera

Remembering the question: A cholera example

  • 3:00 What are the good methods he uses to provide background on the domain science?
  • 3:37 If we had to prove that cholera wasn’t passed by the air what type of data would we need?
  • 4:52 Do you think this is compelling?
  • 5:33 Can we do this experiment?
  • 7:22 The data scientist has to find the data.
  • 9:31 The data scientist has to give the data purpose.
  • 11:00 Finding the unique features provide the experimentation value.

Great Quotes

Correlation does not imply causation… The most popular defense of tiny minds in the face of uncomfortable evidence.

You are rewarded for finding answers to the “that’s funny” statements.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny…’ -Isaac Asimov

Why is this a poor example of non-aligned scales?

Visualizing statistical tests