📊 #dataviz In my #psy6135 Psychology of Data Visualization course students give a capstone presentation.
By peer review I give out the Jim Ranking Awards for the best. So chuffed to announce the winners:
🥇 Hannah Tran: The Quantified Self and Media Consumption Data Tracking 👁 bit.ly/43bBqCZ
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#psy6135 #dataviz Quiz
Discuss this statement, pointing out the advantages and disadvantages of tables vs. incisive displays of coefficients.
More importantly, comment on how each of these can be improved to facilitate communication.
#psy6135 Nice chart, but the all RED points and lines are misleading.
📊 #psy6135 #dataviz Students in my Psychology of Data Visualization course completed their capstone presentations.
Such a wide range of topics! I'm so thrilled. 👏👏
friendly.github.io/6135/student... (no further re-use permitted)
#psy6135 An effective way to show change. Why does this work?
#psy6135 This seems to be an interesting way to display
two-point comparisons for a number of groups. What design features make this effective? Anything you would change?
📊 #psy6135 Capstone presentations in my Psychology od Data Viz course today.
Very special guest appearance by Dr. Vizzie, here to host the session. What a great collection of talks.💯
Nobody should have had to ask for them to be on the same scale to be reasonably compared.
But this does provide a good teaching example #psy6135
📊 #psy6135 Today's topic: Data Journalism
Early/modern examples, satellite J, software for DDJ, ...
In a way, the capstone of my course, comprising graphic design, what works,... ➡️tell a credible story.
Thx @jleerankin.bsky.social sky.social for getting this started!
💻 Slides: bit.ly/3TVY3XA
#psy6135 Interesting, simple use of interactivity to allow reader to choose scale fixed vs. free.
#dataviz is about making comparisons. Good #dataviz is about making them easy.
📊 #psy6135 #rstats Today's topic: Visualizing Uncertainty
Topics: Visualizing distributions, Error bars, Bayesian stuff, fitted curves, ...
Thx to @elibryan.bsky.social, @mjskay.com, @clauswilke.com, @cedricscherer.com and other folks I stole from.
💻 Slides-- friendly.github.io/6135/lecture...
📊 #psy6135 #rstats Today's topic: ggplot2: Going Further in the Tidyverse
Topics: Data import; data wrangling; working with models (broom), ...
💻 Slides-- friendly.github.io/6135/lecture...
#rstats #psy6135
And, another tutorial: Minard meets ggplot explores remaking C. J. Minard's famous work.
friendly.github.io/6135/tutoria...
Source: friendly.github.io/6135/tutoria...
#rstats #psy6135
I've been covering ggplot2, and today, a deep dive into the tidyverse.
But, here is a ggplot tutorial, exploring the gapminder data that might be of interest
friendly.github.io/6135/tutoria...
Source: friendly.github.io/6135/tutoria...
📊 #psy6135 And, for those who want to try to re-make Minard's majestic plot in #rstats:
🔗 friendly.github.io/6135/tutoria...
🔗 github.com/andrewheiss/...
🔗My Minard Gallery: www.datavis.ca/gallery/re-m...
Shark experiment: Pies vs Bars. Do sharks prefer conch pie charts or granola bar charts
📊 #psy6135 Special lecture today: Deep Questions of Data Visualization. I report tide-turning, sea-floor shattering experiments of graph preferences among marine animals:
❓ Do sharks and turtles prefer conch pie charts or granola bar charts ❓
💻 Slides-- friendly.github.io/6135/lecture...
📊 #psy6135 #dataviz Today's topic: The Language of Graphs: from Bertin to GoG to ggplot2
How we got from the idea of 'graphs as a visual language' to elegant software for producing them
💻 My slides friendly.github.io/6135/lecture...
#psy6135 It is not either filled bands OR colored points. Filled grey bars would do a better job of showing the narrowing of range
📊 #psy6135 #dataviz Today's topic: Human Factors Research: How to tell what works
💻 My slides friendly.github.io/6135/lecture...
📊 #psy6135 This week: Graphical Perception
Topics: Encoding, decoding; Top-down vs. bottom-up processing; Illusions, Gestalt factors, Accuracy of decoding; Color
💻 My slides friendly.github.io/6135/lecture...
📊 #psy6135 Wonderful day: A guest lecture by @albertocairo.com got us re-thinking the decisions we make in
designing graphs for communication. Followed by my overview of history of #dataviz
💻 My slides friendly.github.io/6135/lecture...
#psy6135 This week: Varieties of Info Visualization. #dataviz #history 📊
Topics: Data graphs; Thematic maps; Networks & trees; Animation & interactive graphics
💻 Slides friendly.github.io/6135/lecture...
📊 #dataviz #StatsSky #psy6135 Here's a nice article on visual thinking and Abraham Wald's famous example of survivorship bias by Harlan Brothers
medium.com/science-spec...
No, left and right are the same axis, which is sometimes useful in line graphs and more useful than grid lines. #psy6135
#psy6135 First class today: Overview. #dataviz #history 📊
Topics: Goals of visualization; visualization as communication; Effective data display
💻 Slides friendly.github.io/6135/lecture...
Hex logo for my course, Psychology of Data Visualization, featuring an image of various graphic ideas inside a brain
ANNOUNCE:
📊 I'm teaching my favorite course, _Psychology of Data Visualization_ again starting in Jan. Among other topics: #history of #dataviz, graph #perception, #rstats graphs, data journalism, ...
Course materials available at: friendly.github.io/6135/
I'll use the tag #psy6135 for posts
#psy6135 Class today: Data Journalism #dataviz 📊 #rstats
Topics: What is #DDJ? Early/modern examples; satellite journalism; software for DDJ
Thx: @rsimmon, @Jleerankin for stuff I borrowed/stole
Slides available at bit.ly/3TVY3XA
(Sorry; animations don't show in PDF)
#psy6135 Class today: ggplot2: Going further in the tidyverse #dataviz 📊 #rstats
Topics: Data import, wrangling, working with models, nice tables, writing & publishing
Slides available at friendly.github.io/6135/lecture...
Examples on the main course page
