Difference between revisions of "Visualizing process data"

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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.

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

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 * [http://learnche.org/pid/data-visualization/index Textbook, chapter 1]
 * [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rZXJY7aybeng7H_ZngzHDsbBxn-uipvRPF6r9JdH-9g Quiz] and [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ew6UwKP8SBM19jvdYfMxgSnRVIvUNuwnOSNlJoZ3Tg4 Solution]
+* Complete steps 1, 2 ... 9 of the [http://learnche.mcmaster.ca/4C3/Software_tutorial software tutorial]
 == Class videos from prior years ==