Lesson 6 - Intro to Data Visualization

Today we’ll go into the basics of why we visualize, who we visualize for, and how to think about our relationship with our data.

• Mark Newman’s Election Maps
• Lilo & Stitch
• Peg + Cat: The Three Friends Problem
• FRED
• Example Vega-Lite plot

Notes

• Part1_programming_simple2dMovies_lesson06.pdf
• Part2_programming_dataProcessing_pandas_lesson06.pdf

Libraries and downloads

• hermite_library.py
• animations_library.py
• myPlanetSystem_kepler101_solution1.txt
• Kepler confirmed planet data

More Resources

• Some of these slides are taken from a full, graduate level course on data visualization.

Materials

• Lecture 6: (view, source, present)
• Notebook Part1_programming_simple2dMovies_lesson06: (view, download)
• Notebook Part2_programming_dataProcessing_pandas_lesson06: (view, download)
• Notebook inClass_lesson06: (view, download)