Lesson 2: Designing Graphs to Enlighten
Content
- Human perception and information processing
- Perceptual and design principles for effective visual analytics
- Principles of Graphic Design
- Rules for Encoding Values in Graph
- JunkCharts
- Practical Guides for Using Colour in Charts
- Data-ink
Lesson Slides and Hands-on Notes
Readings
Core Readings
Optional Readings
- Junk Charts Trifecta Checkup: The Definitive Guide
- 7 Basic Rules for Making Charts and Graphs
- Quantitative Literacy Across the Curriculum
- Tapping the Power of Visual Perception
- Sometimes We Must Raise Our Voices
- Best Practices for Understanding Quantitative Data
- Data Visualization: Rules for Encoding Values in Graph
- Choosing Colors for Data Visualization
- Line Graphs and Irregular Intervals: An Incompatible Partnership
- Dos and don’ts of data visualisation- Usability guidelines for improving your visualisations
Learning from Examples
All About Tableau
White Paper
Tutorial
- Getting Started with Dashboards and Stories
- Getting Started with Calculation
- Calculation Syntax
- Introduction to LOD Expressions
- Intro to Table Calculations
- Modifying Table Calculations
- Aggregate Calculations
- Date Calculations
- Logic Calculation
- String Calculation
- Number Calculation
- Type Calculation
- Conceptual Topics with LOD Expressions
- Aggregation and Replication with LOD Expressions
- Nested LOD Expressions
Visual Analytics Method(s) of the Week
Boxplot
- Understanding Boxplots
- Visualizing samples with box plots
- Regina L. Nuzzo (2016) “The Box Plots Alternative for Visualizing Quantitative Data”, PR&M, Volume8, Issue3, pp. 268-272.
Violin Plots
- Violin Plot-wikipedia
- Hintze, Jerry L.; Nelson, Ray D. (1998). “Violin Plots: A Box Plot-Density Trace Synergism”. The American Statistician. 52 (2): 181–4
- Violin Plot by LondonSODA.
Notched Box Plots
Dot Plots
- Dot plots
- Dot Plots: A Useful Alternative to Bar Charts
- The dot plot: A graphical tool for data analysis and presentation
- Leland Wilkinson (1999) “Dot Plot”, Statistical Computing and Graphics, Vol. 53, No. 3, pp. 276-281.
Pie chart and Bar chart
- Understanding Pie Charts
- Tracey L. Weissgerber et. al. (2015) “Beyond Bar and Line Graphs: Time for a New Data Presentation Paradigm”, PLoS Biology.
Raincloud Plots
- Allen M, Poggiali D, Whitaker K et al. “Raincloud plots: a multi-platform tool for robust data. visualization” [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]. Welcome Open Res 2021, pp. 4:63.