Remembering the Art of Visualization

J. Hathaway

Review

Case Study 12: Keep your project moving

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 24: Coding Challenge

Discussing the Art

Tools

Learning to properly use tools empowers us to make change.

tools

The 8-fold path

  1. Simplify
  2. Explore
  3. Compare
  4. Attend
  5. View diversely
  6. Respond
  7. Be skeptical
  8. Ask why

Compare

The primary question of analysis is “Compared to what?”

  • Tufte

Attend

We need to make graphics that allow people to attend to the elements that matter

http://viscoglab.psych.ubc.ca/videos/