Monthly Archives: September 2016
In-Class Exercise – Week 06 – Advanced Data Visualization
Exam #1 – Thursday, Oct 6, 5:30 – 6:10 PM
Week 05 – Data Visualization – class slides and videos
Week 05 – Data Visualization (I) (color).pdf
Crimes 1999-2014.zip (Tableau file)
The Art of Data Visualization – PBS (http://video.pbs.org/video/2365039781/)
The Beauty of Data Visualization – TED (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zg-C8AAIGg)
In-Class Exercise – Week 05 – Finding Cool Data Visualization
In-Class Exercise – Week 05 – Finding Cood Data Visualization.pdf
- Bloomberg (http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics)
- Pew Research Center (http://www.pewresearch.org/)
- The Economist (http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail)
- The New York Times (https://twitter.com/nytgraphics)
- The Wall Street Journals (https://www.pinterest.com/wsjgraphics/wsj-graphics/)
- The Washington Post (http://postgraphics.tumblr.com/)
- USA Today (http://www.usatoday.com/topic/E01C4890-85A2-4E0B-A3DD-58BD88E71251/interactive-graphics/)
Extended Office Hours for Assignment #2 – Friday, Sep 30, 1 – 5pm
I will have extended office hours on Friday, Sep 30 at 1 – 5pm. Please drop by my office if you have a question or need help in Assignment #2!
Best Assignment #1
Grading of Assignment #1 completed
The grades are available in Blackboard.
Assignment #2 – Analyze Data Using Tableau (due by Sep 30)
In-Class Exercise – Week 04 – Visualizing with Maps
In-Class Exercise – Week 03 – FoodAtlas.twb (solution)
Unzip the above file, and you’ll find the solution Tableau file for last week’s in-class exercise.
Examples of not-so-interesting hypotheses
Hypothesis 1. “CSI is a better television show than Law and Order.”
Hypothesis 2. “MLB All Star game was more entertaining back in the 1990s than it is in the 2010s.”
Hypotheses 1 and 2 are not testable. It needs to be more specific in terms of measurement. How can we measure about “better television show”? How to measure the degree of “entertaining”?
Hypothesis 3. “The cost of living is cheaper in Philadelphia than New York.”
Hypotheses 1-3 are not interesting because they compare only a set of two facts (e.g. cost of living in Philadelphia and New York, quality/popularity of CSI and Law and Order). Instead of comparing the cost of living in two cities, a better hypothesis could be “the cost of living is higher at a city whose annual average temperature is between 70F and 80F than at other cities.” By doing so, we compare cost of living and temperatures in multiple cities.
Hypothesis 4. “A city with higher inches of rainfall has more rainy days in a year.”
Hypothesis 4 is too obvious. You’ll get better grades from hypotheses whose rationale could be counter-intuitive and surprising.
In-Class Exercise – Week 03 – Introduction to Tableau
Tableau Desktop 9.3 Download and Activation Key – PLEASE READ
We will begin learning Tableau Desktop next week (Sep 15). We are going to use Tableau Desktop version 9.3, NOT version 10.0.
If you’d like to install Tableau Desktop on your laptop, please download version 9.3 from here – http://www.tableau.com/support/esdalt. Mac version is available as well. Once again, make sure to download and install version 9.3, not version 10.0
All students have received an activation key that allows you to use Tableau for free during this semester. You can find your activation key at MIS Gradebook – https://community.mis.temple.edu/gradebook/.
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting
Crime in the United States 2014 – FBI (https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2014/crime-in-the-u.s.-2014/cius-home)
Philadelphia Open Data
Philadelphia Crime Map and Stats – Philadelphia PD (http://www.phillypolice.com/crime-maps-stats/)
Philadelphia Crime Incidents – OpenDataPhilly (https://www.opendataphilly.org/dataset/crime-incidents)
OpenDataPhilly Datasets (https://www.opendataphilly.org/dataset)
Assignment #1 – Data Analysis Plan (due by Sep 16)
In-Class Exercise – Week 02 – Creating Hypotheses
Week 02-2 – In Data We (Mis)Trust – class slides
Week 02-1 – Data, Information, Knowledge – class slides and video
Week 02 – Data, Information, Knowledge (color).pdf
Week 02 – Data, Information, Knowledge (bw).pdf
NSA Collecting Verizon Phone Records – Today (http://www.today.com/video/today/52117612#52117612)