Making sense of data
Class ressources
Some examples
- New York times visualisations
- Financial times visualisations
- https://www.dataviz-inspiration.com/
References
- book chapter on visualisation principles
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book chapter on common plots
- Schwabish, Jonathan A. 2014. “An Economist’s Guide to Visualizing Data.” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 28 (1): 209-34.
- Five Charts You’ve Never Used but Should, from PolicyViz
- https://bxl-malade.medor.coop/
- Financial Times Visual Vocabulary of charts
- Classification of chart types and Common issue in dataviz
- Graphs from the Economist data team
- For example, a dashboard on dog popularity by country!
- Visualisation guidelines, applied to the Stata: medium article
- An interactive article by Le Pudding on European politics and local adaptation.
Learning objectives:
- Choosing the appropriate summary statistics
- by type of variable (qualitative vs. quantitative)
- by number of variable (univariate vs. bi-variate)
- Interprating these statistics
- Implementing the computation of summary statistics
- Knowing the most frequent types of plot
- Identifying strenght & weaknesses of graphical representations