2 - Good and Bad Data Visualizations

Week 1
8/27/2024
💻 🧰 📊 🥳

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 🪞

Office hours

• Jess: Tuesdays 1-2pm Howlett 348 or via Zoom
• Daniel: Thursdays 2-3pm Howlett 340 or via Zoom (tell Daniel by the start of office hours if you’re planning to attend)
• 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 😡

Maps 🗺

Caleb

Fertility after bombing 👶

Sujin

Ozone in LA 🏭

Addie

Scary spider plots 🕸️

Lexie

The worst!

Berenice 🏅

Good visualizations 👏

Pie charts can be good 🥧

Avonti

Soil & small multiples 🚜

Mithlesh

Boxplots gone viral 🦠

Courtney

Science competency 🔬

Prabath

Voting by region 🗳️

John

Growing petunias 🌸

Alexandra

Where do people live? 🗺

Swetha 🏅

Closing thoughts