LibGuides: TIM-6510 V4: Week 7 Resources

Week 7 Resources

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Fundamentals of Data Visualization
Wilke, C. O. (2019). Fundamentals of data visualization. O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Read Chapter 6 – Visualizing Amounts.
This chapter discusses how to choose data visualization options (charts and graphs) to best show the magnitude of numbers.
Read Chapter 7 – Visualizing Distributions: Histograms and Density Plots.
This chapter discusses how to choose data visualization options (charts and graphs) to represent different types of distributions and modalities.
Read Chapter 8 – Visualizing Distributions: Empirical Cumulative Distribution Functions and Q-Q Plots.
This chapter discusses how to choose data visualization options such as empirical cumulative distribution functions and Q-Q plots.
Read Chapter 9 – Visualizing Many Distributions at Once.
This chapter discusses how to choose data visualization options that permit viewing of subsets for the response or other variable of interest.
Read Chapter 10 – Visualizing Proportions.
This chapter discusses how to choose data visualization options to see proportional data.

Open Data Resource Options

University of California Irvine UCI Machine Learning Laboratory
Dua, D. and Graff, C. (2019). UCI Machine Learning Repository [http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml]. Irvine, CA: University of California, School of Information and Computer Science.
Data.gov
Data.gov. (2020, September 14). Data.gov.
Open Data NY
State of New York | Open Data | State of New York. (2018). Ny.gov.
Open Government - Data.gov
Open Government - Data.gov. (2019, September 18). Data.gov.
Use this resource to search for an open data website in your state.