2 - Good and Bad Data Visualizations

Week 2
💻 🧰 📊 🥳

Jessica Cooperstone, Ph.D.

Housekeeping

• Questions from the previous class?
• Take edX R basics class if you don’t have R experience
• Start think about identifying a dataset for your capstone assignment
• Don’t forget about your reflections 🪞
• Recitations start next week!

Office hours

• Those who want to attend office hours virtually, use the same Zoom link for class

What was easier to find?

• Good 👏 visualizations
• Bad 😡 visualizations

What are we doing today?

• Bad: why are they bad (specifically), how can they be made better?
• Good: why are they good (specifically), can we still improve them?

Bad visualizations 😡

Good visualizations 👏

Closing thoughts