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Statistics 4868/6610 Data Visualization

Prof. Eric A. Suess

January 4, 2016

Why am I interested in Data Visualization?

Why are you interested in Data Visualization?

Data Viz is very cool these days!

• data
• summarize it
• make a picture
• tell a story

• Yimeng Wang Women at the Wheel
• Jeff Hemsley somelab.net
• Aida Yazdanparast and Tony Tran Oil Spill on Birds

In this course we are going to examine Data Visualization examples, methods, and software.

You will have the opportunity to work with data to create visualizations.

Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics by Nathan Yau

FlowingData

See Tutorials and Projects

youtube

• Hans Rosling BBC
• Hans Rosling: The best stats you've ever seen
• tableau videos
• The beauty of data visualization - David McCandless

What software is used for Data Visualization?

• R and R Studio
• R Studio shiny
• ggobi
• playwith
• tableau
• plot.ly
• python and matplotlib and Bokeh
• D3

• MS Excel
• JMP
• SAS
• Minitab
• SPSS

and many many more …

blog post Top Data Visualization Software Products

• Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
• Exploratory Data Analysis by John Tukey

• The Grammar of Graphics by Leland Wilkinson
• ggplot2 by Hadley Wickham
• Graphics of Large Datasets, Visualizing a Million by Unwin, Theus, Hofmann

Do you know what The Cloud is?

Why is it so imporant for data visualization?

summary(cars)

     speed           dist       
 Min.   : 4.0   Min.   :  2.00  
 1st Qu.:12.0   1st Qu.: 26.00  
 Median :15.0   Median : 36.00  
 Mean   :15.4   Mean   : 42.98  
 3rd Qu.:19.0   3rd Qu.: 56.00  
 Max.   :25.0   Max.   :120.00