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01 Introduction36-721 Statistical Graphics and Visualization
Jerzy Wieczorek
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Examples and context
What good is data visualization?
What can we aspire to?
How do statistical graphics fit in with other flavors of visualizationand information design?
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Statistical graphics
Classifier diagnosticsCook & Swayne, Interactive and Dynamic Graphics for DataAnalysis, With R and Ggobi
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Statistical graphics and scientific visualization
I See a huge dataset all at onceI Find interesting features at different scalesI Notice data anomaliesI Propose scientific hypotheses
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Infographics & data journalismStatic infographic by Alberto Cairo
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Infographics & data journalism
Interactive graphic by New York Times
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Animation and narration
Hans Rosling’s TED talks
Watch 2:15-5:01 here
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Data artWall Street Journal
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Data artStephanie Posavec
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Information design, visual explanation
Wayfinding
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Information design, visual explanation
Instruction
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Course info
How is the class organized? How is it graded?
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How would you organize this course?
What topics to cover? How to group them?
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How I’ve organized this course
Course objectives (see Syllabus) are based on frameworks andprinciples
In class we will
I Look at graphicsI Discuss whether they workI Propose reasons why they (don’t) workI Compare to frameworks/principles in the literatureI Critique graphs and make new ones using our principlesI Learn software tools as needed for implementation
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Assessments
Each assessment (homework, critique, project) targets one of thelearning objectives. No points—just a rubric for each assignment.
Final grade depends on which assignments you completed and howwell (see Syllabus).
You can revise and resubmit. But first submissions must be on timeand show sincere effort! (to keep grading manageable for us)
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Syllabus
I Office hours and due datesI ObjectivesI Texts and softwareI AssessmentsI AdministriviaI Schedule
Be sure to note:
I Passing grade for CMU graduate students is B- or above.I R software is required for Statistics MSPs.
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Schedule of topics
What will we study?
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Readability and best practices
Armenian National Statistical Service and my own remake
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Human visual perceptionCleveland and McGill (1984)
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The Grammar of Graphics
IBM’s VizJSON, R’s ggplot2, SPSS’s GPL and VisualizationDesigner, Tableau. . .
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Graphic design
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Interaction design
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The dataviz research literature
Correll and Gleicher (2014)
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Communicating statistical ideasSampling variation, via New York Times
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Graphics for statistical analysis
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Maps and cartography
Map projections, choropleths, cartograms
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TBD—ideas
I Vector fieldsI Data sonificationI D3.js practiceI Chart zooI Table designI History of visualizationI Your topic here?
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Historical classics
So you can nod and say, “Oh yeah, I know that one”
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Nightingale
Polar area diagram, 1858
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Statistical Atlas of the United States
Statistical Atlases by the U.S. Census Bureau, 1870-1890,including ranks of city populations 1790-1890
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Anscombe
Anscombe’s quartet, 1973 (via Tufte, The Visual Display ofQuantitative Information)
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Anscombe
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Holmes vs. Tufte
Holmes, TIME, 1982(?); Tufte, Envisioning Information, p. 34;Cairo, The Functional Art, p. 61-70
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ClevelandTrellis dotplot of barley yield data (Cleveland, 1993),though see rejoinder
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Classic books
I Bertin, Semiology of GraphicsI Cleveland, The Elements of Graphing Data and Visualizing
DataI Wilkinson, The Grammar of GraphicsI Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information and
Envisioning InformationI Wainer, Visual Revelations and others
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Next time
What to prepare? What’ll we cover?
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Prepare for next time
I Install and test-drive your statistical graphics softwareI Look at HW1 (data + rubric), let me know if unclearI Readings: Cairo Ch 1-4; Donahue p. 1-23I Blogs to follow
I Nathan YauI Alberto CairoI Robert KosaraI Kaiser FungI Di Cook
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Next time we’ll cover
I Best practices for most common 1D/2D charts and tablesI Image formats, resolution, saving plotsI A few handy tricks (logs, loess, jitter)I R users: bring laptops to follow along
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Software installation
Let’s get everything installed and debugged to prepare for futureclasses.
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Software installation
I Who’ll use R? What else will be used?I R users: install and test-drive
I R and RStudioI ggplot2, knitr, shiny packages
I Tableau users: install student licenseI www.tableau.com/academic/students
I Also considerI D3.jsI Inkscape