Enhancing graphics
Readings due before class on Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Required
- Chapter 14, Chapter 15, Chapter 16, Chapter 22, and Chapter 23 in Claus Wilke, Fundamentals of Data VisualizationClaus E. Wilke, Fundamentals of Data Visualization (Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly Media, 2018), https://serialmentor.com/dataviz/.
- Chapter 8 in Kieran Healy, Data VisualizationKieran Healy, Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018), http://socviz.co/.
- Browse through recent visualizations at The Pudding (like this one!), FiveThirtyEight, Vox, Christopher Ingraham’s articles at the Washington Post, WSJ Graphics, and the New York Times’s TheUpshot. Most (if not all) of these graphics were made in R and exported for enhancement in Illustrator or D3.
Questions to reflect on
- Again, reflect on whatever you want