Module 3.2: Rules of the data visualisation game

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Section 3.2. Rules of the game:

(Title can change)

Description

In this section, we will describe the basic components of a figure. For the examples, we will use data from the hands-on sessions focusing on a particular country.

This section should last around 20m.

Outline

• What is a figure? Mapping data onto aesthetics.
• Coordinate systems and axes.
• Color scales.
• Statistical transformations(binning or aggregating).
• Annotations: labels, legends, titles.

References

Material for sections 2 and 3 is mainly based on the Fundamentals of data visualisation book and grammar of Graphics Wickham's paper.

Estimated time

As we will have to build figures with the data this section will take longer. Around 8h.

[crangelsmith]

This is also a good reference for this section https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/daviz/learn-more/chart-dos-and-donts