4.2 Visualizing Data

Once we’ve familiarized ourselves with the vocabulary surrounding data visualization, we’ll move on to learning about the process of taking our analysis of a dataset and transforming it into an effective visualization. We’ll study common techniques and guidelines to follow.

Data Viz Basics (slides)

What are the building blocks of data visualization?

⊕ marks, channels
⊕ categorical, ordinal, quantitative
⊕ visual variable guidelines

Supplemental Material

There are tons of resources out there! Here are some to browse through: ▲: Textbook by Claus O. Wilke ▲: Visualization Analysis and Design by Tamara Munzner
▲: Data Visualization: A practical introduction by Kieran Healy
▲: Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte