Notes:
| start date | topic | reading/viewing | notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Jan | overview; tidyverse/ggplot basics | GitHub lessons (Jenny Bryan; GitHub with GitHub desktop; GitHub on the command line); Software Carpentry lessons on dplyr and tidyr; John Rauser on How Humans See Data | |
| 15 Jan | principles: Tukey, Cleveland, Tufte | Cleveland and McGill (1984); Cleveland and McGill (1987) | |
| 22 Jan | exploratory graphics | ||
| 29 Jan | diagnostic graphics | Peltonen, Venna, and Kaski (2009) | |
| 5 Feb | inferential graphics | Wickham et al. (2010); Gelman, Pasarica, and Dodhia (2002); Gelman (2011) | |
| 12 Feb | infoviz vs data viz; ethics; expository graphics | Su (2008); Gelman and Unwin (2013) | class moved to MDCL 1115 (12 Feb)/TSH B126 (13 Feb) |
| 19 Feb | winter break | ||
| 26 Feb | working week | ||
| 5 Mar | dynamic graphics | example data; HTML widget gallery; Hans Rosling’s TED talks on Gapminder; ggvis |
Cai; Wang |
| 12 Mar | high-dimensional data | ggobi (articles on GGobi by Cook et al.) |
Li; He |
| 19 Mar | spatial data and mapping | working directory; presentation files | Bushby; Jovic |
| 26 Mar | alternative platforms for data visualization | intro to D3; Vega; Python (matplotlib; seaborn; …) |
Lopez; Kuzmin |
| 2 Apr | network/tree data | igraph/ggdendro packages etc.; Swayne, Buja, and Lang (2004) |
Chen; Zhang |
| 9 Apr | meet if it seems like a good idea |
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Gelman, Andrew. 2011. “Why Tables Are Really Much Better Than Graphs.” Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 20 (1): 3–7. doi:10.1198/jcgs.2011.09166.
Gelman, Andrew, and Antony Unwin. 2013. “Infovis and Statistical Graphics: Different Goals, Different Looks.” Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 22 (1): 2–28. doi:10.1080/10618600.2012.761137.
Gelman, Andrew, Cristian Pasarica, and Rahul Dodhia. 2002. “Let’s Practice What We Preach: Turning Tables into Graphs.” The American Statistician 56 (2): 121–30. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1198/000313002317572790.
Peltonen, Jaakko, Jarkko Venna, and Samuel Kaski. 2009. “Visualizations for Assessing Convergence and Mixing of Markov Chain Monte Carlo Simulations.” Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 53 (12): 4453–70. doi:10.1016/j.csda.2009.07.001.
Su, Yu-Sung. 2008. “It’s Easy to Produce Chartjunk Using Microsoft®Excel 2007 but Hard to Make Good Graphs.” Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 52 (10): 4594–4601. doi:10.1016/j.csda.2008.03.007.
Swayne, Deborah F., Andreas Buja, and Duncan Temple Lang. 2004. “Exploratory Visual Analysis of Graphs in GGobi.” In Proceeds of the 3d International Workshop on Distributed Statistical Computing (Dsc 2003), edited by K. Hornik and F. Leisch, 477–88. Springer. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-7908-2656-2_39.
Wickham, H., D. Cook, H. Hofmann, and Andreas Buja. 2010. “Graphical Inference for Infovis.” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 16 (6): 973–79. doi:10.1109/TVCG.2010.161.