STAT 80B - Data Visualization

Author

Dr. Marcela Alfaro CΓ³rdoba

πŸ“‘ Course Brief

Focus: the focus of this course is to learn the art of storytelling data as a visual graphic.

How: hands-on learning. This means that we will have a workshop style class every week, with active learning and a clear roadmap to apply these tools to real data in a project starting on week 4.

🎯 Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, students should be able to:

  1. Evaluate and critique the aesthetics, truthfulness, and narrative of data visualizations through statistics.
  2. Become confident in consuming and processing data visualizations from everyday life.
  3. Develop analytical skills needed by professionals who use data in their work.
  4. Create data visualizations in Tableau/R/Python and other tools to answer questions, tell stories, and uncover truths.

Acknowledgements

I’m grateful to several talented people who helped make this course webpage possible. Danielle Navarro created the beautiful aRt featured in our banner and throughout various slides. Allison Horst designed the fun webpage icon and other images you’ll see in our presentations. Claus O. Wilke is the author of the texbook we are using in the class, and hence, a lot of the images in my presentation are from his book. Jon Cardoso developed the elegant template that powers our course webpage, and Markus Eger generously provided guidance in adapting Jon’s template for our needs.

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