Lecture 2

Link to Slides Data Viz - Lecture 2 - 14 Jan 2025.pdf

Structured Data

Morning

  • Why visualise?
  • Visual representations can lead to insights
  • Card PIN Dataset
  • Exercise: Exercise - PIN PointExercise - PIN Point
    Dataset

    Download this dataset of synthetic PIN card numbers from Kaggle. Open the .csv file in either a text editor or Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets to see the values.

    PIN Data | Kaggle

    Are y...
  • Finding data
  • Exploring datasets
  • Features in datasets
  • Data models - structured and unstructured data
  • Exercise: Exercise - Explore a DatasetExercise - Explore a Dataset
    Instructions

    Find a dataset in an area that you are interested in. For the purpose of this exercise, avoid text heavy datasets and image datasets. Make sure there are at least 4 features in the da...

Afternoon

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  • Exercise: Exercise - Explore a DatasetExercise - Explore a Dataset
    Instructions

    Find a dataset in an area that you are interested in. For the purpose of this exercise, avoid text heavy datasets and image datasets. Make sure there are at least 4 features in the da...
    WITH AI!!!

Resources

Some datasets discussed in class: