Now that we’ve had some experience working with data, visual encoding and basic chart types, how do you actually put it all together? Some graphic design tips can make it easier.
Posts By: Lisa Waananen Jones
Lesson: Principles for Visual Impact
What actually makes something a good chart? Opinions differ, so we’ll discuss several common approaches and what we know from data visualization research.
Working with Pivot Tables
In this assignment, you’ll use pivot tables to find trends and summarize information from large spreadsheets of raw data.
Charting WSU Demographics
In this assignment, you’ll organize data from WSU about student demographics using spreadsheets and then create charts using Google Sheets. Part 1: Working with WSU Data 1. The Office of Insitutional Research, or IR, is a department at WSU that publishes data about WSU. Go to the IR website and download the file called Enrollment… Read more »
Lesson: Elements of Data Visualizations
Last week we went over “visual encoding,” which is one element of data visualizations both from history and the modern era.
Lesson: History of Data Visualization
Visualization techniques developed to help make sense of that collected data, and to share it. In this lesson, we’re going to take a brief look at the history of data visualization and when different chart forms were invented.
Lesson: What is Data Visualization?
Before we dive into making charts and spreadsheets and telling stories with data, we need to start with some overview definitions about what actually makes something “data visualization.”
Scavenger Hunt
In this assignment, you’ll be finding examples of data and visualizations in your own life and daily activities.
Syllabus Visualization
Your first assignment is a sketching activity to begin thinking about how information — particularly numerical information — is represented visually.
Lesson: Course Introduction
Welcome to Introduction to Data Visualization. Each week will include course materials organized as lessons that include a combination of videos, lecture slides, readings, links and questions/activities.