Creating Good Graphics

Stat 251

2025-02-18

Homework 4

Where are you at?

Graphics week!

You should have read:

• Graphics
  • Focus on relationships between variables
  • Grammar of Graphics vs. Manual plot specification/mapping
  • Exploratory data analysis
• Good Graphics
  • Perception & Cognition
  • Use the least complicated chart that still works

Make Graphics!

• Part I: Make visual summaries for two new data sets and think about mappings

• Part II: Use your knowledge to create the worst!

Resources for this week

• R and Python Graph Galleries

• Ugly Chart Challenge variant example from last semester’s graduate class

• Customizing ggplot2 plots

  • Also an RStudio addin package - ggThemeAssist

• Customizing seaborn plots

Homework

• Explanations! What can you see from the plot? What is its purpose?

Homework rubric

Next time

• Continue working on homework assignment

• Brainstorming: 🧠⛈️

  • how to make the textbook 📖 more effective
  • what will motivate you to read it before class? 😜