Week 1

Designing charts: processes and principles

Prepare

Note📚 Prepare

📖 Introductory session, no preparation needed

Participate

Note👥 Participate

📊 Slideshows:

  1. Design Principles Presentation

Practice

Note💻 Practice

🧮 Introduction to R/Python visualization environments

🧮 Version control with Git

Perform

Note📝 Perform

✏️ Introductory session, no laboratory exercises

Ponder

Essential Readings

Tufte, E. R. (1983). The visual display of quantitative information, Chapters 1

Cairo, A. (2012). The Functional Art, Introduction and Chapter 1

Core Visualization Principles

Data Visualization and Communication Exercise (in Moodle, “Case studies” section1)

Footnotes

  1. Teaching case studies will not be posted because of intellectual property rights.↩︎