Week 1 - Introduction

This week, we went over the structure of the course, as well as some 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

Downloads

• FRED GDP.csv file
• Reworked Stitch Image

Installation instructions

We will be using several Python packages that you need to install.

Please follow these installation instructions to install the necessary packages.

Optional Reading List (See syllabus for acronyms)

1. VAD, Ch. 1: What’s Viz, and Why Do It?
2. FDV, Ch. 1: Introduction & FDV, Ch. 17: The principle of proportional ink
3. Same Data, Multiple Perspectives
4. Intro to Jupyter Notebook Video

Materials

• Installation instructions: (view, source)
• Lecture 1: (view, source, present)
• Example Submission: (view, source)
• Notebook: inClass_week01: (view, download)
• Notebook: prep_notes_week01: (view, download)
• Notebook: test_imports_week01: (view, download)