Good and Bad Data Visualizations

Week 3
💻 🧰 📊 🥳

Jessica Cooperstone, Ph.D.

Housekeeping

• Questions from the previous class?
• Take edX R basics class if you don’t have R experience. Can also go through content at an R Basics Code Club workshop from August 2026.
• Start think about identifying a data-set for your capstone assignment
• Don’t forget about your reflections 🪞
• Recitations start next week!

Office hours

Mondays, 4-5pm, Pelotonia Research Center or via Zoom

How did you go about finding your visualizations?

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 😡

SE Asian Convenience Stores 🍙

Yongju

Kottman at it again

Xucheng

COVID from March 2020 🤧

Shanelle

Mia’s favorite worst 🦍

Haaniya 🏅

Good visualizations 👏

Plant response to freezing 🌱🥶

Whey cool 🥛

Writer’s productivity 📖

Killing weeds 🌾

Mia’s favorite best 🦠

Amy 🏅

Mia’s favorite best 🦠

Karina 🏅

Closing thoughts