Week 4 - Diving deeper into visualization

Take a sad plot and make it better 📉

Schedule

Lec 07 Tips for effective data visualization
Lab 04 Ugly charts Due: Fri, 11 Oct, 17:00
Lec 08 Joining and mapping
HW 04 Legos and instructors Due: Wed, 16 Oct, 17:00
RT 04 Interactive tutorial covering week’s material: Separate + unite + Join
OQ 04 Data joins and better visualizations Due: Fri, 18 Oct, 17:00

Readings

📃 Tidy data Required
📃 Pivoting Required
🖋 Pulling the multi-national story out, step by step Optional
🖋 Why do cats & dogs…? Optional
📃 How do data scientists spend their time? - https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2016/03/23/data-preparation-most-time-consuming-least-enjoyable-data-science-task-survey-says/ (short) Optional
📃 How do data scientists spend their time? - What Data Scientists Really Do, According to 35 Data Scientists (long) Optional

Videos

📽 Hans Rosling: 200 Years in 2 Minutes