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Data Visualization
SML201: Introduction to Data Science, Spring 2019
Michael GuerzhoyContent from Kieran Healy, Data Visualization
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What makes for good DataViz?
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Charles Joseph Minard• Presents information in a comprehensible, non-misleading, and memorable way• A creative process
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Good DataViz?
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Monstrous Costs by Nigel Holmes
• Memorable• Not misleading• (Probably) comprehensible
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Bad DataViz: Bad Taste
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• Not as easy to read as it could be
• Tacky• “Junk Chart”• Not so terrible
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Bad DataViz: Bad Taste
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Number of o-rings damaged dependingon temperature: the figure in the report
A much better figure
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Bad DataViz: Bad Data
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• Looks nice• Implies people were
asked “Is it important to live in a democracy,” and we are plotting the percentage of “yes” responses
• Actually, we are plotting of people who answered 10/10 to “On a scale of 1-10, how important is it to live in a democracy”
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Bad DataViz: Bad Data
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There is a decline, butthis is not NYT materialanymore now that wemeasure the average rating
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Bad DataViz: Perception-Unfriendly design
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Hard to figureout the values!
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Bad DataViz: Uninspired Design
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Difficult to see the trends for the different types
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Bad DataViz: Honesty Issues
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Same data, but the graph on the left is quite misleading
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Preattentive search
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• Compare how much color “pops out” compared to shape• More data makes things much more difficult
• Searching for the blue circle on the right is very difficult
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Gestalt rules
• Humans readily perceive patterns (real or not) based on proximity, similarity, connection, continuity, closure, belongingto background/foreground, common movement
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random
Non-random