Relationships
Content for Monday, October 7, 2024–Friday, October 11, 2024
Readings
- Chapter 9 in The Truthful Art (Cairo 2016)
- Andrew Heiss, “Marginalia”
- Chapter 12 in Fundamentals of Data Visualization (Wilke 2018)
- Kieran Healy, “Two y-axes”
- Two Alternatives to Using a Second Y-Axis & Illusion of success & Dissecting two axes
- Dual-Scaled Axes in Graphs: Are They Ever the Best Solution? (Few 2008)
Recommended
Possible questions to reflect on
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 can you correctly and honestly communicate relationships between variables? How can you communicate the uncertainty in those relationships?
- What are the dangers of visualizing two variables?
- When is it appropriate to use two y-axes?
Slides
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Videos
Videos for each section of the lecture are available at this YouTube playlist.
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