Data Visualization- Remote, August 2020

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A 4-Day Remote Seminar Taught by Kieran Healy, Ph.D.

The effective use of graphs and charts is an important way to explore data for yourself and to communicate your ideas and results to others. Being able to produce effective plots from data is also the best way to develop an eye for reading and understanding visualizations made by others, whether presented in academia, business, policy, or the media.

This seminar provides an intensive, hands-on introduction to the principles and practice of data visualization. We will begin with an overview of some basic principles. We will focus not just on the aesthetic aspects of good plots, but on how their effectiveness is rooted in the way we perceive properties like length, absolute and relative size, orientation, shape, and color. Students will learn how to produce and refine plots using ggplot, a powerful, versatile, and widely-used visualization library for R. It implements a “grammar of graphics” that gives us a coherent way to produce visualizations by expressing relationships between the attributes of data and their graphical representation.

At the end of the course, participants will:
– Understand the basic principles behind effective data visualization
– Have a practical sense for why some graphs and figures work well while
others may fail to inform or actively mislead
– Know how to create a wide range of plots in R using ggplot2
– Know how to refine plots for effective presentation

Starting August 4, we are offering this seminar as a 4-day synchronous*, remote workshop for the first time. Each day will consist of a 3-hour, live morning lecture held via the free video-conferencing software Zoom. Participants are encouraged to join the lecture live, but will have the opportunity to view the recorded session later in the day if they are unable to attend at the scheduled time. Each lecture session will conclude with a hands-on exercise reviewing the content covered, to be completed on one’s own that afternoon. A final session will be held each evening as an “office hour”, where participants can review the exercise results with the instructor and ask any questions.

*We understand that scheduling is difficult during this unpredictable time. If you prefer, you may take all or part of the course asynchronously. The video recordings will be made available within 24 hours of each session, meaning that you will get all of the class discussion and exercise solutions even if you cannot participate synchronously.

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