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    The document discusses best practices for visualizing data and reasoning. It recommends using charts and graphs to appeal to different learning styles, provide visual reinforcement of data, and restate arguments. Basic graph types like column charts, bar charts, line graphs, scatter plots and pie charts are presented. The document emphasizes keeping visualizations simple, avoiding distortion, distraction and ambiguity. It also discusses theoretical aspects like using visuals to make ethical arguments and choosing visual genres based on the type of variables and argument.

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    Lecture on basic argument in charts & graphs.

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    Visualizing Reasoning

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    Visualizing Reasoning: Wednesday, October 27, 2010

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    The document discusses best practices for visualizing data and reasoning. It recommends using charts and graphs to appeal to different learning styles, provide visual reinforcement of data, and restate arguments. Basic graph types like column charts, bar charts, line graphs, scatter plots and pie charts are presented. The document emphasizes keeping visualizations simple, avoiding distortion, distraction and ambiguity. It also discusses theoretical aspects like using visuals to make ethical arguments and choosing visual genres based on the type of variables and argument.

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    Visualizing Reasoning

    Wednesday, October 27, 2010


    Practical aspects:

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    Why charts and graphs?

    • Appeal to different learning styles


    • Provide visual reinforcement
    • Restate your data

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    These are arguments.

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    You can chart or graph
    anything.

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    You can also make
    anything visually
    comprehensible.

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    Stay simple.

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    Don’t do this:

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    Basic graph types:

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    Column Charts
    A B

    40

    30

    20

    10

    0
    2002 2003 2004 2005

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    Bar Charts
    # Students

    2010

    2009

    2008

    2007

    0 50 100 150 200

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    Line Graphs

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    Scatter graph

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    Pie Charts
    Female Male

    30%

    70%

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    Consider context

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    Keep it simple.

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    Avoid distortion.

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    Avoid distraction

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    Avoid ambiguity

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    Theoretical Aspects

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    Visuals must make an
    argument.

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    That argument must be

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    ethical.

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    Numbers become
    evidence by
    being in relation to.

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    The question is always

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    “Compared with what?”

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    See page 44.

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    Cholera

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    Right now:

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    250 dead

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    3,000 sickened

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    The 1854 Cholera
    Epidemic in London

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    500 dead in 10 days

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    The logic of display
    design must reflect the
    logic of the analysis.

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    Descriptive narration is
    not causal explanation.

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    Page 30-31

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    Choose genre based of
    variables and type of
    argument.

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    Consider granularity

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    Consider clarity

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    Charts need legends.

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    Legends must be
    clear and simple.

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    Avoid chartjunk.

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    Consider order.

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    Tufte’s 6 Principles

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    1. Document the sources
    and characteristics of the
    data.

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    2. Enforce appropriate
    comparisons.

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    3. Demonstrate mechanisms
    of cause and effect.

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    4. Express those mechanisms
    quantitatively.

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    5. Recognize the multivariate
    nature of analytic problems.

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    6. Inspect and evaluate
    alternative explanations.

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