Enhancing graphics

Content for Monday, October 28, 2024–Friday, November 1, 2024

Readings

• Chapter 14, Chapter 15, Chapter 16, Chapter 22, and Chapter 23 in Fundamentals of Data Visualization (Wilke 2018)
• Chapter 8 in Data Visualization (Healy 2018)
• 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 (or something similar) and exported for enhancement in Illustrator or D3.

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.

• Enhancing graphics

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

References

Healy, Kieran. 2018. Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction. Princeton: Princeton University Press. http://socviz.co/.

Wilke, Claus E. 2018. Fundamentals of Data Visualization. Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly Media. https://clauswilke.com/dataviz/.