Module 1: Why Visualizations?
Whatever we learn, we need to know why we are learning it. So, why do we need to learn visualization?
Further readings
Meta-learning
Why quizzes and exams (retrievals) are more critical than reading or lecture in learning?
- Karpicke, Jeffrey D., and Henry L. Roediger. "The critical importance of retrieval for learning." science 319.5865 (2008): 966-968.
On the importance of internal motives
- RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
- Wrzesniewski, Amy, et al. "Multiple types of motives don't multiply the motivation of West Point cadets." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111.30 (2014): 10990-10995.
John Snow's map
Industrial revolution
John Snow's Cholera map and Voronoi diagram
- Nightmen in London
- The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
- https://yyiki.org/wiki/Voronoi%20diagram/
Power of visualization
- Anscombe's quartet
- Same Stats, Different Graphs - CHI 2017
- What data patterns can lie behind a correlation coefficient?
- Pre-attentive processing
Visualizations
- PBS: The Art of Data Visualization
- Racial dotmap
- Pulse of the Nation
- ‘Stop-and-Frisk’ Is All but Gone From New York
Exploratory vs. Explantory visualization