HW05 due anytime Thursday 2014-10-16. Last official homework of STAT545A. For those going on to STAT547M, this means a one week break in marked homework.
HW06 Optional, unmarked activities for the STAT 545A / STAT 547M transition
What’s coming?
- Week of Oct 20: Practical graphing tips, tidy data, data reshaping, plyr beyond ddply(), joins and merges
- Week of Oct 27: Data cleaning, regular expressions, wrangling character data (Gloria Li)
- Week of Nov 03: Task automation and building pipelines (Shaun Jackman)
- Weeks of Nov 10, 17, 24, order TBD: building an R package, building a Shiny app, getting data off the web
TODAY: More about making graphs!
- Do’s and Don’ts of effective graphs

Interesting links that aren’t included in the pages referenced above

Ten Simple Rules for Better Figures PLoS CompBio
Twenty rules for good graphics by Rob Hyndman
DATA + DESIGN, A simple introduction to preparing and visualizing information. See especially
- CHAPTER 17 PERCEPTION DECEPTION
Data visualization: A view of every Points of View column, a round-up of data visualization columns from Nature
Sketchnotes by Jennifer Cham from a tutorial given by UBC colleague Tamara Munzner
- Slides for the 5 hours minicourse Visualization Analysis & Design are here
A 1915 memo from the US Census Bureau on graphical presentation. It holds up very well!
- http://sappingattention.blogspot.ca/2014/08/data-visualization-rules-1915.html
Chart suggestions – a thought starter, a poster to help pick plot types. I don’t approve of all of these but still worth a look.
WTF Visualizations. Wow.
19th-Century Infographic Shows American Mortality as a Cluster of Cute Little Charts from slate.com
Data Is Ugly a subreddit “all about butchered statistics, misleading charts and unlabelled axes.”