Week 9 Reading & Lecture

Please Read: Chapter 7 "Arrange Tables"

In case you did get a copy of The Grammar of Graphics; Please Read/Skim: Chapter 9 "Coordinates"

Please watch:

• Visualizing Multi-Dimensional Data by Amit Kapoor - This excellent talk by Amit Kapoor discusses many topics that overlap with Chapter 7 of our text book, but also touches upon many various directions these techniques can be taken. This talk is heavily influenced by the original "Grammar of Graphics" book, and ggplot2 from R.
• Iterating Fast with Vega Lite API - A lecture of mine that covers the space of high level visualization tools. See also Observable Plot, a newer tool in the same space.

Additional material (optional):

Several folks have mentioned that data manipulation in JavaScript can be quite tricky. Here are some resources that can help with that:

• Learn JS Data - An excellent older tutorial covering many of the basics.
• d3.group, d3.rollup, d3.index - Great documentation of the aggregation features provided by D3.
• JavaScript for Data Analysis - A high-level writeup of why it makes sense to use JavaScript for data analysis by Mike Bostock, creator of D3.