Uncertainty
Readings
- Chapter 7 in Claus Wilke, Fundamentals of Data Visualization1
- Chapters 4, 7, and 11 in Alberto Cairo, The Truthful Art2
- Why It’s So Hard for Us to Visualize Uncertainty
- Amanda Cox’s keynote address at the 2017 OpenVis Conf
- Communicating Uncertainty When Lives Are on the Line
- Showing uncertainty during the live election forecast & Trolling the uncertainty dial
Questions to reflect on
- Why is it important to deal with uncertainty in data?
- What was good or bad about the New York Times’ 2016 live election guage?
- Why is it so hard to visualize uncertainty?
- Why is it so hard to communicate uncertainty to others?
Slides
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Videos
Videos for each section of the lecture are available at this YouTube playlist.
You can also watch the playlist (and skip around to different sections) here:
Claus E. Wilke, Fundamentals of Data Visualization (Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly Media, 2018), https://serialmentor.com/dataviz/.↩︎
Alberto Cairo, The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication (Berkeley, California: New Riders, 2016).↩︎