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Readings due before class on Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Required
- Chapter 6 in Claus Wilke, Fundamentals of Data VisualizationClaus E. Wilke, Fundamentals of Data Visualization (Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly Media, 2018), https://serialmentor.com/dataviz/.
- Chapter 6 in Alberto Cairo, The Truthful ArtAlberto Cairo, The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication (Berkeley, California: New Riders, 2016).
Questions to reflect on
- How do these types of visualizations help or hinder or search for truth in data?
- What are different ways to show the variability of a single number? Are some more appropriate than others? Why?