Task: Preparation for S1 Week 5 Workshop

The aim of the S1 Week 5 workshop and the associated preparation is to help you achieve the learning outcomes, which will be assessed in the project in Semester 2:

  1. Describe and apply good practices for storing, manipulating, summarising and visualising data.
  2. Use standard packages and tools for data analysis and describing this analysis, such as Python and LaTeX.

Task

Do the following individually in preparation for the Week 5 workshop:

  1. Read chapter 1 (“Data Visualizations: A primer”) from the Big Book of Dashboards by Wexler, Shaffer and Colgreave (2017). To find the online version in the library:
    • Go to Data Visualization: A Primer
    • Under "Links & availability", select "Wiley Online Library UBCM all Online Books"
    • You should find a direct link to the PDF of chapter 1 in the table of contents

  2. Read the principles and guidance for creating visualisations in the lecture notes, which are summarised in the Visualisation principles and guidance handout 

  3. Read the criteria for marking explanations/interpretations and code

 

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