Week 10: Figures for Science Communication

Graphs and figures are not exclusive to science. They are used widely in general society as well. This week, we will explore a variety of examples of good and bad data visualization, to get a sense of how figures are used in general communication.

Lecture Topics

• Good and interesting plots versus bad plots in public media
• Common causes of bad plots
• A brief tutorial to creating animations and annotations

Resources

• Reddit: Data is beautiful
• Reddit: Data is ugly
• Intro to gganimate
• Intro to ggrepel
• Today’s data source

Code and Data

• Week 10 R Project

Lecture slides

Slides available via speakerdeck