6/30/23, 12:14 AM Université du Luxembourg - Programme

Master of Data Science

Data visualization

Module: Module 2 Programming, Data Management and Visualization, Semester 1

ECTS: 3

Objective: Know the Tufte principles such as “data to ink ratio”, “show the data”
Explain the principles of good charts - labels, use of area, angles and lengths, etc.
Create publication-ready plots
Know all basic chart types and their use as well as some advanced plots
Formatting tables and figures for ease of reading
Know about data transformation for display purposes (normalization, log-transformation, standard error vs standard
deviation)
Set-up interactive data analysis (using shiny or plotly)

Mandatory: Yes

Description: The course introduces visualization using common software packages for exploratory data analysis and communication
of data-driven findings. Data visualization principles such as data-to-ink ratio and weaknesses and strengths of types of
data display will be introduced.
It will teach best practices for figures, such as labeling of axis, titles, captions, red-green awareness as well as tables.
The concepts for the use of ggplot2, seaborn, plotly and matplotlib packages will be discussed. Interactive visualizations
will be introduced and discussed.

Language: English

Lecturer: KRAUSE Roland

Evaluation: Assignments with a final practical work on an individual data set.

Note: Note / Literature / Bibliography

Fundamentals of Data Visualization https://clauswilke.com/dataviz/

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