What is data visualization? More than you think.

I'm gonna differ from others in the "industry" here, I think ...  considered simplistic, or too focused on entry-level. Well, good. Data visualization should be entry-level. Don't get me wrong ... I love what D3 can do and bow down to Mike Bostock, but what I want to help you do is find and tell stories.

I use data visualization first to FIND stories, then to TELL stories. There you go, in a nutshell.

• Lecture slides (Links to an external site.)
• If we don't cover Paul Bradshaw's Inverted Pyramid of Data Journalism (Links to an external site.) and my extension (Links to an external site.) of it, consider it homework

Categories: Lecture notes, Spring 2015