Visual Representation Basics II

Readings due before class on Monday, February 4, 2019

Required

• Chapter 6: “Exploring Data with Simple Charts” in Alberto Cairo, The Truthful ArtAlberto Cairo, The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication (Berkeley, California: New Riders, 2016).
  
  

• Chapter 4: Show the right numbers in Kieran Healy, Data VisualizationKieran Healy, Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018), http://socviz.co/.
  
  

Recommended

• Chapter 5: Directory of visualizations and Chapter 22: Image file formats in Claus Wilke, Fundamentals of Data VisualizationClaus E. Wilke, Fundamentals of Data Visualization (Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly Media, 2018), https://serialmentor.com/dataviz/.
  
  

• Chapter 7: Exploratory data analysis 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/.
  
  

• How do we know when a visualization is good? Perspectives from a cognitive scientist by Lace Padilla (Multiple Views Blog)

• Labelling dataviz by Mike Kearney.