macdataviz@gmail.com(in development)
| start date | topic | reading/viewing | lectures | R scripts | lecture recordings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Sep | organizational meeting; tidyverse/GitHub basics | Git stuff (“Happy Git with R”; GitHub with GitHub desktop; GitHub on the command line); tidyverse stuff (Software Carpentry lessons on dplyr and tidyr; tidyverse cheat sheets (see especially “data import” and “data transformation”)) | intro (slides) | 1; 2 | 1; 2; 3 |
| 15 Sep | principles: Tukey, Cleveland, Tufte | Cleveland and McGill (1984); Cleveland and McGill (1987); John Rauser on “How Humans See Data”; “bananas plot” blog post | scales (slides); principles (slides) | BMB’s “bananas” code; old bananas code | 1; 2; 3; 4 |
| 24 Sep | exploratory graphics | explore (slides); explore_multiway (slides); tables (slides) | Lollipop plot example (a fun alternative to bar plots) | 1; 2; 3 | |
| 1 Oct | diagnostic graphics | Peltonen, Venna, and Kaski (2009) | diagnostics (slides) | 1; 2 | |
| 4 Oct | inferential graphics | Wickham et al. (2010); Gelman, Pasarica, and Dodhia (2002); Gelman (2011) | infer (slides); coefplots (slides) | 1; 2 | |
| 11 Oct | |||||
| 18 Oct | Interactive graphics | interactive (slides) | |||
| 20 Oct | infoviz vs data viz; ethics; expository graphics | infovis (slides) | |||
| 22 Oct | Spatial data | spatial (slides); spatial_ex (slides); get_maps (slides) | |||
| 27 Oct | High-dimensional data | newdim (slides); dyndim (slides); ethics (slides) | |||
| TBA | colour (slides) | ||||
| Group work | network (slides) | ||||
| 6 December | Group presentations | (Dec 6: McLean/Zarini; Agdeboye/Lim; Wang/Chen) Dec 8: Pekos/Freeman; Greenberg/Cai/Lee; Neal/Sowue) |
Cleveland, William S., and Robert McGill. 1984. “Graphical Perception: Theory, Experimentation, and Application to the Development of Graphical Methods.” Journal of the American Statistical Association 79 (387): 531–54. https://doi.org/10.2307/2288400.
———. 1987. “Graphical Perception: The Visual Decoding of Quantitative Information on Graphical Displays of Data.” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General) 150 (3): 192–229. https://doi.org/10.2307/2981473.
Gelman, Andrew. 2011. “Why Tables Are Really Much Better Than Graphs.” Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 20 (1): 3–7. https://doi.org/10.1198/jcgs.2011.09166.
Gelman, Andrew, Cristian Pasarica, and Rahul Dodhia. 2002. “Let’s Practice What We Preach: Turning Tables into Graphs.” The American Statistician 56 (2): 121–30. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1198/000313002317572790.
Peltonen, Jaakko, Jarkko Venna, and Samuel Kaski. 2009. “Visualizations for Assessing Convergence and Mixing of Markov Chain Monte Carlo Simulations.” Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 53 (12): 4453–70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2009.07.001.
Wickham, H., D. Cook, H. Hofmann, and Andreas Buja. 2010. “Graphical Inference for Infovis.” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 16 (6): 973–79. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2010.161.