Data Visualization: Summarizing and Communicating Patterns in Data
Front Matter
The content in this “book”, as the title suggests, is related to data visualization. The content and material in this book will help you to be able to think critically about the how visual summaries of data are created and their role in the data narrative for facilitating people’s understanding about patterns and relationships in data. It will also cover the use of computational tools and methods for creating visualizations via R, a statistical computing environment. Lastly, the book also helps you think about how data visualization is a method of communication—it is one way that people communicate with data—and how we can make use of several principles for communicating in a more effective manner.
Resources
This book refers to and uses several data sets throughout the text. Each of these data sets and their codebooks are available online at the book’s github repository, https://github.com/zief0002/adv-modeling/.
Acknowledgments
Many thanks to all the students in our courses who have been through previous iterations of this material. Your feedback has been invaluable, and you are the world’s greatest copyeditors. In particular, we would like to thank Regina Lisinker and Suzanne Loch who have both been instrumental contributors to the EPSY 1261 content over the years.
Colophon
The book is typeset using Atkinson Hyperlegible. The color palette was generated using coolors.co.
Icon and note ideas and prototypes by Desirée De Leon.
Artwork
- Data science and statistics artwork by @allison_horst
License
Data Visualization: Summarizing and Communicating Patterns in Data by Chelsey Legacy and Andrew Zieffler is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
