In this talk, I will describe data visualization from three perspectives: historical, theoretical, and software implementation. I will review the history of data visualization, starting with Enlightenment practitioners and concluding with today’s data scientists. I will review some theories of data visualization, emphasizing Jacques Bertin, Leland Wilkinson, and Hadley Wickham. I will review the software history of data visualization, emphasizing the software used by data scientists today. Finally, I will mention the main venues for data visualization today in popular media and scientific literature. After the talk, I will ask attendees to create a quick data visualization using Tableau.
Coiled bar chart of CO2 emissions
The world’s tallest tree and two humans for scale
Wait for Michael Friendly’s and Denis York’s book on the subject.
Context of preceding viz: photo of WEB DuBois exhibit, including diagrams, photos, and books
Cover of Tukey’s 1977 book, Exploratory Data Analysis
Cover of Tufte’s 1983 book, Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Dust Jacket of Cleveland’s 1985 book, Elements of Graphing Data
Visual Analytics, 2005—
Book cover of Illuminating the Path (2005)
Cover of Jacques Bertin’s book, Semiology of Graphics
Cover of Leland Wilkinson’s book, Grammar of Graphics
Cover of Hadley WIckham’s book, ggplot2
Mark Lombardi’s handdrawn visualizations have been exhibited in art museums
One of many attempts to automate Lombardi’s visualizations
R running in the RStudio IDE
Python running in the RStudio IDE
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