Dataviz for Scientists

Author

Otho Mantegazza

Slides for the data visualization part of the 2023 Hackathon Workshop on Computational Modeling at the University of Embu, Kenya.

Slides

Day 1

  1. Instant Knowledge
  2. Quick history of Dataviz
  3. The Grammar of Graphics
  4. Exploratory Data Analysis

Day 2

  1. Better Graphs - Part I
  2. Better Graphs - Part II

Resources

Besides the slides, you can consult any of these open access books on the topics of data analysis, statistics, programming and data visualization. The authors of those books made them open access, so they can be consulted online anytime.

License

This work is licensed by Otho Mantegazza under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. For more information about the non-original bits and pieces, please check the file LICENSE on this course’s Github repo.

Acknowledgements

Big thanks to Giorgia Ditano for the help and support in reviewing the course material.