Data Visualisation in Data Science
As data becomes easier and cheaper to generate, we are moving from a hypothesis-driven to data-driven paradigm in scientific research. As a result, we don’t only need to find ways to answer any questions we have, but also to identify interesting questions/hypotheses in that data in the first place. In other words: we need to be able to dig through these large and complex datasets in search for unexpected patterns that - once discovered - can be investigated further using regular statistics and machine learning. Interactive data visualization provides a methodology for just that: to allow the user (be they domain expert or lay user) to find those questions, and to give them deep insight in their data.
Content:
- Background and context of data visualization and visual data analysis
- Design as a process: framing the problem, ideation, sketching, design critique, …
- Programming visualizations: static and dynamic
- Project: visualization of expert dataset
2020-2021
Teaching assistants:
- Jannes Peeters: jannes.peeters@uhasselt.be
- Danai Kafetzaki: danai.kafetzaki@uhasselt.be
- Jelmer Bot: jelmer.bot@uhasselt.be
Schedule
Sessions
| Date | Topic | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 23/2 | Introduction |
| 2 | 2/3 | Introduction Tableau + project requirements |
| 3 | 16/3 | Design session |
| 4 | 23/3 | Peer-feedback on intermediate designs |
| 5 | 30/3 | HTML & SVE; introduction to libraries: vega/p5/D3 |
| 6 | 21/4 | Peer-feedback on intermediate implementation |
| 7 | 28/4 | Q&A: teaching team available for feedback |
| 8 | 19/5 | Poster session |
Assignments
These assignments are to be prepared for the next session.
| Deadline | Assignment | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16/3 | - Choose data for project, make data exploration, define research questions - Try out miro |
| 2 | 23/3 | - Present data to teaching team for go/no-go - Create additional designs and put on miro |
| 3 | 30/3 | Deadline for blog post on design |
| 4 | 14/4 | - Look at online tutorials - Create simple plot using different technologies - Start programming on project |
| 5 | 22/4 | Blog post on intermediate implementation 1 |
| 6 | 6/5 | Blog post on intermediate implementation 2 |
| 7 | 28/5 | Final report and video submitted |