Advanced Data Visualization

Getting Started

Telling Stories with Data

• 1.0 Competency One and Objectives
• Video: The Art of Data Visualization
• More Than Numbers
• What to Look For
• Design
• Wrapping Up

Handling Data

• 2.0 Competency Two and Objectives
• Gather Data
• Formatting Data
• Wrapping Up

Choosing Tools to Visualize Data

• Out-of-the-Box Visualization
• Programming
• Illustration
• Mapping
• Survey Your Options
• Wrapping Up

Visualizing Patterns over Time

• 4.0 Competency Three and Objectives
• What to Look for over Time
• Discrete Points in Time
• Continuous Data
• Wrapping Up

Visualizing Proportions

• What to Look for in Proportions
• Parts of a Whole
• Proportions over Time
• Wrapping Up

Visualizing Relationships

• 6.0 Competency Four and Objectives
• What Relationships to Look For
• Correlation
• Distribution
• Comparison
• Wrapping Up

Spotting Differences

• What to Look For
• Comparing across Multiple Variables
• Reducing Dimensions
• Searching for Outliers
• Wrapping Up

Visualizing Spatial Relationships

• What to Look For
• Specific Locations
• Regions
• Over Space and Time
• Wrapping Up

Designing with a Purpose

• 9.0 Competency Five and Objectives
• Prepare Yourself
• Prepare Your Readers
• Visual Cues
• Good Visualization
• Wrapping Up

Appendix

Tutorials