In 2016 I got the opportunity to speak in front of a small group of highschoolers who were part of the Girls Who Code group at Ingraham High School. Though we were interrupted by a power outage, I did my best to talk through my (always expanding) ideas about the point and power of data visualization.
Thanks very much to Erin Shellman for the invite!
Slides
Resources 42 links, click to show
Here are a bunch of links of things referenced in my talk. Thanks to all those who make great visualizations that I can show off!
What and why
- Data Visualization Intersection UCLA DMA
- Visual Encoding Accuracy
- What Makes a Visualization Memorable? Borkin et al.
- The Connected Scatterplot Robert Kosara
- Talks Scott Murray
Examples
- Wind Map hint.fm
- Where People in Each State Were Born NYT Upshot
- Selfiecity
- Connecting the Dots Behind the 2016 Campaigns NYT
- The Clubs That Connect the World Cup NYT
- How Much Is a Limb Worth? ProPublica
- Mapping Shakespeare’s Tragedies Martin Grandjean
- Gun Sales Soar After Calls for Restrictions NYT
- The Pace of Social Change Bloomberg
- Searching for Flight 370’s Debris NYT
- America’s Most Prolific Wall Punchers Quartz
- Dear Data Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec
- Visualizing Algorithms Mike Bostock
- A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning R2D3
- The Hottest Year on Record Bloomberg
- U.S. Gun Deaths Periscopic
What not to do
- The Best Pie Chart Ever FlowingData
- Fox News Continues Charting Excellence FlowingData
Tools
- RAWGraphs DensityDesign
- Tableau
- Lyra UW Interactive Data Lab
- DataBasic
- matplotlib Python
- seaborn Python
- ggplot2 R
- p5.js
- D3.js
Keep learning
- The Quartz Guide to Bad Data
- Learn JS Data
- Audience, Audience, Audience Storytelling with Data
- Choose the Right Chart Type Labnol
- Everything Is a Remix Kirby Ferguson, video
- Everything Is a Remix, visualized my project
- FlowingData
- Lynn Cherny’s Pinterest boards
- An Incomplete List of Women in Data Visualization Stephanie Evergreen
- Sketches from the Swinging Swing States NYT Graphics