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Data Visualization

Introduction to the data pipeline with a focus on visualization

  • Introduction
  • Helpful Links
  • Inspiration
  • Student Work

Syllabus

  • Week 1: Introduction to Data: Source, Scrub, Analyze and Visualization (Data Pipeline)
  • Week 2: Collecting Data, Sourcing Data and Big Data
  • Week 3: Scrubbing and Analysis
  • Week 4: The Psychology of Information Design and Illustrator
  • Week 5: Infographics, Data Storytelling and Datavisual
  • Week 6: In Class Work Session
  • Week 7: Midterm
  • Week 8: Data, the Web and Datavisual
  • Week 9: JavaScript and jQuery
  • Week 10: JavaScript and APIs
  • Week 11: JavaScript and D3
  • Week 12: In Class Work
  • Week 13: In Class Work
  • Week 14: Final

Helpful Links

Sourcing Data
data.world
Your Apple Data
Your Facebook Data
Your Netflix Data
Your Spotify Data
Column Five – 100 Free Data Sources
Google Trends
Google Correlate
City of New York
United States Census
United States Data
United States Department of Transportation
Bureau of Economic Analysis
World Bank Data
UN Data
UN Human Development
Baseball Reference
Enigma Open Database
CitiBike Data
The Gaurdian Datablog
Google Flu Trends
Quartz Atlas
100+ Interesting Data Sets
Mapping Police Violence
NYC COVID-19 Data
Harvard Database

Data Collection
Gyroscope App – Location Data and lots more
Rescue Time – Tracks Everything you do on your Computer
Daytum – Online Diary
Reporter App – Mobile App Diary
Survey Monkey – Survey Service
Google Forms – Custom Questionnaire
Moves App – Track Your Movements
Moment App – Track Phone Usage

Scrubbing Data
Sublime Text Edit
Open Refine

Analysis
Python
R Studio
Google AI Experiments
ml5.js
Tensor Flow

Data Visualization
Adobe Illustrator
Datavisual

Datylon Graph (Illustrator Plugin)
The Data Visualisation Catalogue
The Data Viz Project

Interactive Data Viz
Datavisual
Google Charts API
D3js
Highcharts
Tableau Public
Mapbox

Data Visualization Competitions
Kaggle
UN Unite Ideas
UN Human Development Report
Transportation and Policy

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