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Data Visualization

Asynchronous

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This program is included with Career Launch Cohort Enrollment and Erdős Institute Alumni Club Membership at no additional cost.
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Category

Launch, Supplemental, Self-Directed, Mini-Course

Overview

Our materials touch on the following content to varying degrees:
• Plotting in Python: matplotlib, seaborn, plotly, and bokeh
• Web browser visualizations: HTML, CSS, SVG, and d3.js
• Basic Tableau
• Basic design principles

Note: our asynchronous mini-courses do not have a project component and do not offer certification. Any references to either projects or certificates you find in these course materials are remnants of earlier iterations of the course where these components were present.

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Organizers, Instructors, and Advisors

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Steven Gubkin

Head of Training and Assessment

Office Hours:

By appointment only

Email:

Preferred Contact:

Slack

Message me on Slack if you have questions about the course! I am also your primary contact for GitHub access.

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Matthew Osborne, PhD

Lead Instructor, Senior Operations Analyst

Office Hours:

None

Email:

Preferred Contact:

Slack

Please direct all course questions to Steven Gubkin.

Objectives

The aim of this mini course is to teach you how to produce data visualizations in a variety of programming languages/softwares while also touching on fundamental design principles.

First Steps/Prerequisites

Participants should have a base-level familiarity with Python. If you are new to Python, but would still like to participate you can review our existing Python Prep materials to get up to speed. It will also be helpful, but not necessary to have a basic understanding of probability and statistics. If you would like to review some statistics or probability should check out the slides at these links: 
First Steps

Program Content

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Program Content

Textbook/Notes

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Data Viz Mini Course Introduction

Introduction

In this video I provide a quick introduction to the mini course. Note: since this video was recorded we have eliminated the final project and certification components of the course.

Transcript
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The Figure Object

Python: matplotlib

Here we introduce matplotlib's Figure class, the basis for all matplotlib graphs.

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plt.scatter

Python: matplotlib

Could you tell me how to make a scatter plot in matplotlib?

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Charts Involving Rectangles

Python: matplotlib

Bar charts and box plots and histograms. Oh my!

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Python Introduction

Python

In this video we discuss what we will cover in the Python portion of our mini course.

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Axes Objects

Python: matplotlib

What goes on a Figure object? Why Axes objects of course.

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Multiple Plots on One Axes

Python: matplotlib

This Axes IS big enough for the two of us.

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plt.imshow

Python: matplotlib

Things are heating up with this one... We learn how to make heatmaps.

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matplotlib Introduction

Python: matplotlib

We introduce our matplotlib subsection.

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plt.plot

Python: matplotlib

We learn about the go-to plotting function in matplotlib, plt.plot.

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plt.text

Python: matplotlib

omg, lol, ttyl, no wait not that kind of text. We're adding strings onto our Axes in this one friends.

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plt.pie

Python: matplotlib

Pie charts in matplotlib.

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Project/Homework Instructions

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Project/Team Formation
Project Submission
Projects README

Schedule

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Orientation & Setup

Phase 1: Instruction and Project Completion

Project Review & Judging

Phase 2: Intense Interview Prep & Career Connections

Project/Homework Deadlines

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