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Revision as of 15:56, 2 January 2016
Learning outcomes
- Understand when it is appropriate to use scatter plots, bar plots, pie charts (hint: almost never), and even tables.
- Learn an interesting, potentially new plot: the box plot, to summarize and compare data.
- How to effectively visualize up to 5 dimensions on a 2-D plot, as shown in a video by Hans Rosling.
- Know the meaning of words like sparklines, data density, and chart junk.
Extended readings
- Sankey diagrams for example, would make a great way to show energy utilization in your company, or even a mass balance superimposed on a flowsheet. Here's a great example applied to the UK energy supply and demand.
- How To Lie With Financial Statistics, Investopedia, November 2011
- 40 years of boxplots
- Why you should never have to use pie charts, an article by Stephen Few.
- This is one video you must watch for the course: Hans Rosling shows an incredible data visualization
Resources
Class videos from prior years
Videos from 2015
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Videos from 2014
Videos from 2013