Teaching Approaches to Visualizing Data

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In this post we feature materials from the course: Data Visualisation in Political Psychology at the University of Sheffield from Dr. Alexandra Anderson. You can use one relevant piece, download the whole set and adapt for your course, or share this page with your students so they can choose the resources of interest.

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Overview

What is Data Visualisation?

What Are the Different Data Visualisations Out There?

Data Visualization\r is Not Neutral

Data Visualisation - When it Goes Wrong

Alexandra Anderson shared course materials for free download on SAGE Research Methods teaching!

Grammar of Graphics

Grammar of Graphics – An Introduction

• Key Elements in the Grammar of Graphics: Data, Aesthetics, Geometries

• Maps in the Grammar of Graphics

• Spatial Data: Map Projections

• Let’s Look at all the Layers of the Grammar of Graphics Together

• Other Elements in the Grammar of Graphics: Facets, Statistics, Coordinates, And Themes

Visual Display of Information

Introduction to Colours:\r Perception

The Visual Display of Quantitative\r Information – Data Density And Small Multiple

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information - Graphical Excellence

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information’ - Graphical Integrity

Edward Tufte’s ‘The Visual Display of Quantitative Information’ - Graphical Integrity

Edward Tufte’s ‘The Visual Display of QuantitativeInformation’ - Graphical Excellence

The Visual Display of Quantitative\r Information – Data Ink And Chart Junk

Telling Stories with Data Vis: Distribution, Change Over time, And Magnitude

Spatial Data - A Brief Introduction

• Spatial Data: Types of Maps

• Maps Continued…Boundaries: An Introduction

• Maps Continued…The Use And Abuse of Boundaries: Gerrymandering

Lab Worksheets

Data Visualisation: Lab Worksheet 1

Data Visualisation: Lab Worksheet 3

Data Visualisation: Lab Worksheet 4

Data Visualisation: Lab Worksheet 5

Data Visualisation: Lab Worksheet 6

Data Visualisation: Lab Worksheet 7

Data Visualisation: Lab Worksheet 8

Data Visualisation: Lab Worksheet 9

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