Visual Representation Basics I

Readings due before class on Monday, January 28, 2019

Required

• Chapter 3: “Truth Continuum” and Chapter 5: “Basic Principles of Visualization” in Alberto Cairo, The Truthful ArtAlberto Cairo, The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication (Berkeley, California: New Riders, 2016).
  
  

• Chapter 1: Look at data in Kieran Healy, Data VisualizationKieran Healy, Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018), http://socviz.co/.
  
  

Recommended

• Chapter 2: Aesthetic mapping in Claus Wilke, Fundamentals of Data VisualizationClaus E. Wilke, Fundamentals of Data Visualization (Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly Media, 2018), https://serialmentor.com/dataviz/.
  
  

• Chapter 3: Data visualization and Chapter 5: Data transformation in Garrett Grolemund and Hadley Wickham, R for Data ScienceHadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund, R for Data Science: Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data (Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly Media, 2017), http://r4ds.had.co.nz/.
  
  

• The Science of Information Visualization: A Sketch by Robert Kosara.

• What is visualization research? What should it be? by Jessica Hullman (Multiple Views Blog)