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title: "Survival Skills: Concepts of Data-Driven Visualizations"
author: "Claire Curry (OU), Beth Tweedy (OU now UCDavis), Amanda Schilling (OU)"
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# Survival Skills: Concepts of Data-Driven Visualizations"
## Last updated: June 17, 2024
## Authors

Claire Curry (OU), Beth Tweedy (OU now UCDavis), Amanda Schilling (OU)


# Logistics
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### Hybrid (remote/in-person)
- Works well for hybrid participation if more than one person in each format. We are now moving away from hybrid to alternating occurence of remote and in-person, as remote tends to result in only one person showing up in person, which is not conducive to participation.
- Hybrid requires one helper to monitor Zoom chat for questions



# OLD VERSION
State session goals for participants (3 min)
- choose a sentence, table, or graph based on your question and data types [HANDOUT]
- maximize data portrayed to a reader with minimal time, ink, and space by understanding concepts of data density, "chartjunk", and data/ink ratio
- present your data with clarity by making symbols proportional to numbers, clear labeling, showing variation in data (not design of chart), using standardized units, illustrating data with each axis of appropriate dimensions, and providing context for data




- Why visualization is important (2 min)
-Give example of John Snow's map of cholera cases and public pumps to determine that cholera was water-borne. A good visualization can save lives!

- Is the visualization type appropriate? (5 min)
- Matching data and hypothesis to graph type.

- Effective visuals (10 min)
- Concepts
- Accessibility: color blind color choices, font sizes (presentations vs manuscripts), optical illusions
- Do you need additional information?
- Adding distribution to side, internally (box-and-whisker w/scatter, violin plot)
- Highlight statistical tests
- Combine raw and summary graphs (scatterplot with regression line, scatter over box-and-whisker)
- Do you have groupings in your data?
- Lines to connect individuals
- Data density (information per unit area) and the related data/ink ratio: maximize use of ink for data (remove extraneous grid lines and colors)
- Clear visuals with context (10 min)
- Concepts
- Symbols and axes proportional to numbers represented (problem with pie charts, area in general)
- Clear labels (minimize abbrevations) that are consistent with rest of presentation/manuscript terminology
- Reduce external variation / lack of context: Use standardized units (per capita, per weight, whatever relevant to your field), show all relevant data
- Do not change chart design partway through (emphasize variation in data, not design)
- Does it meet your goal, whether that's describing your data or corresponding with any statistical tests you've conducted?
- Real life examples (10 min)
- Assign people randomly to breakout rooms (or group by table in person) and ask them to choose a visualization from one of the links on the slide.
- Leave slide up with suggested discussion questions
- Around 5 min into this section, ask each group to share a link to their graph and highlight something answering one of the discussion questions. (will work better online?)

- Find more help slide (5 min)
- Describe items
- Leave up

- Please help us improve with feedback (3 min)
- Survey link

Concepts adapted from:
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte

Chart Chooser by A. Abela ExtremePresentation.com https://extremepresentation.typepad.com/files/choosing-a-good-chart-09.pdf
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</section>
<section id="get-more-help" class="slide level2">
<h2>Get more help</h2>
<ul>
<li>OU Libraries Digital Scholarship and Data Services open office hours (drop in) and contact form</li>
</ul>
<p>OU Libraries Digital Scholarship and Data Services open office hours (drop in) and contact form</p>

<img data-src="qrcode_dsds.png" class="r-stretch quarto-figure-center"><p class="caption"><a href="https://libraries.ou.edu/data">libraries.ou.edu/data</a></p></section>
<section id="please-provide-feedback" class="slide level2">
<h2>Please provide feedback</h2>
<p>Survey link</p>
<div class="quarto-figure quarto-figure-center">
<figure>
<p><img data-src="qrcode_ou-libwizard-com.png"></p>
<figcaption>QR Code</figcaption>
<figcaption><a href="https://ou.libwizard.com/f/datasurvey">ou.libwizard.com/f/datasurvey</a></figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
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