Quick Recap: Visualizing Data

Visualizing Data

• Data visualization is important for illustrating empirical claims in a clear and intuitive way
• Care and caution are needed when creating and interpreting graphical visualizations

Dig Deeper

Braumoeller, Bear (Professor of Political Science at The Ohio State University). Course on "Data Literacy and Data Visualization." Click this link hereLinks to an external site. to gain access to course videos via YouTube.

Cairo, Alberto. How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information. W.W. Norton and Company.

See Alberto Cairo's talk on his book by clicking this link hereLinks to an external site..

Healy, Kieran. Data Visualization (A Practical Introduction). Princeton: Princeton University Press.

MooMooMath and Science. "Types of Graphs and when to use them." Click this linkLinks to an external site. to gain access to the video.