Here are some important things for preparing for the 5th week:
Week 5 quiz due (you can click the highlights to get the related content)
- please read the reading materials for Week 5 (one reading)
- please finish the week 5 quiz before the class on 9/20 (Tuesday).
Preparing for the exams
- Don’t want to signal urgency and panic, but our first exam will happen on 9/29.
- I will hold on review session and Q&A on 9/27.
- At the same, if you have any questions regarding the class content (e.g., concepts), please feel free to contact me or come to my office hour directly.
- I plan to release the new office hour schedules next Tuesday based on your common time availability selections from this link: https://fox.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9BxknEnNQ8HOS34
Week 4 key takeaways
- Data visualization is part science, part art
- Some basic principles of data visualization
- Simple
- Compare
- Attend
- Explore
- View diversity
- Some basic elements of a data visualization
- Content
- Context
- Construction
- Some additional notes about data visualization
- Y axis of figures should start from 0
- Visualization size should be comparable with values
- Aspect ratio can tell a lie about the trend of visualization of figures
- 3-D effect makes the visualization confusing to interpret
- Too many sectors make the pie chart ugly
- Pie chart must add up to 100%
- Some basic elements of a data visualization
- Function: Function is a mapping from a set of values to another set of values
- Filtering: dropping observations from consideration using some criteria
- Sorting: allows us to change to the order in which the items are presented in a sequence.
I will release your grades regarding your quiz and in-class activity in the morning of this Saturday.
If you didn’t submit them, please finish by this Friday night.
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