Visualisations

Good

These sources are offer visualisations that are generally excellent - though there is usually room to critique even good visualisations, as there is no right answer.

• Napoleon's invasion of Russia - classic plot
• Financial Times Data Points - a good source of data journalism; available within UoE
• The Guardian Datablog - a good source of data journalism;
• Information is Beautiful -  a source of inspirational visualisations, though many beyond the scope of this course
  • Most common PIN codes is one that could be produced using seaborn and Matplotlib
• Causes of Death

Bad

Sometimes it's debatable whether visualisations labelled as "bad" are necessarily all bad; it's important to try to explain why any particular visualisation is bad.

• WTF Visualizations
• https://badvisualisations.tumblr.com/
• Possibly the most misleading Covid chart ever?

Covid

The Covid pandemic had the side effect of getting many people interested in data visualisation:

• FT Covid charts - good example of data journalism
• The Courier's charts of the effect of Covid in Scotland - good example of local data journalism
• Explaining COVID charts - Video by VOX
• A quite different Covid chart - Video by minutephysics
• Scotland Covid-19 Official Statistics