Truth, beauty, and data + R and tidyverse

Content for Monday, August 26, 2024–Friday, August 30, 2024

Readings

Possible questions to reflect on

This is not a required list!

Remember, you don’t need to answer all of these—or even any of them! These are just here to help guide your thinking. All that matters is that you show good engagement with the readings.

  • How do we know what is true?
  • Are facts truth?
  • Why do we visualize data?
  • What makes a great visualization?
  • How do you choose which kind of visualization to use?

Slides

The slides for this week’s lesson are available online as an HTML file. Use the buttons below to open the slides either as an interactive website or as a static PDF (for printing or storing for later). You can also click in the slides below and navigate through them with your left and right arrow keys.

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Tip

Fun fact: If you type ? (or shift + /) while going through the slides, you can see a list of special slide-specific commands.

Videos

Videos for each section of the lecture are available at this YouTube playlist.

You can also watch the playlist (and skip around to different sections) here:

References

Cairo, Alberto. 2016. The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication. Berkeley, California: New Riders.
Healy, Kieran. 2018. Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction. Princeton: Princeton University Press. http://socviz.co/.
Hicks, Michael Townsen, James Humphries, and Joe Slater. 2024. ChatGPT Is Bullshit.” Ethics and Information Technology 26 (2): 38. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5.