Lecture 3

Link to Slides Data Viz - Lecture 3a - 21 Jan 2025.pdf Data Viz - Lecture 3b - 21 Jan 2025.pdf

Marks & Channels

Morning

  • Grading Scheme
  • Reading: Chapter 5 of Tamara Munzner's Visualization Analysis and Design
  • Encoding Data into Visuals
  • Marks and ChannelsMarks and Channels
    Marks

    Marks are the the basic geometries, or graphical elements, in a plot that depict our data items or their linkages.


    Points
    Lines
    Area
    Volume
    Containment
    Connection
    Channels
    ...
  • Picking the right visualisation type
  • Exercise: Exercise - Three Ways of VisualisingExercise - Three Ways of Visualising
    Reference Material

    See Which Chart to Use for a list of reference material that show the different types of visualisations and the types of charts that can be used to represent them.

    Instruct...
  • Common mistakes WTF Visualizations · Data to Viz Caveats

Unstructured Data

Afternoon