ASP 460 2.0 Data Visualization

2022: Semester 1

Course outline: here

Here’s your roadmap for the semester! Class materials will be added on the day of the class.

📊 Week 1: Introduction to data visualization: Visualisation design process

📊 Week 2: Scientific design choices in data visualization

📊 Week 3-4: Introduction to the grammar of graphics

Global variabls vs Local variable

📊 Week 5-6: Create different types of static graphics with ggplot2: categorical Data

📊 Week 7-8: Visualizing distributions of data

📊 Week 9-10: Coordinate systems and axes

Colour scales and coordinate systems with ggplot

📊 Week 11: Visualization of time series data Feature-based Visualization

📊 Week 11: Colour scales and coordinate systems with ggplot

📊 Week 12: Linked data views of visual exploration/ Dashboard, interactive and animated displays

📊 Week 12: Higher-dimensional displays and special structures

Sample flexdashboard-HTML

Sample flexdashboard-Rmd

📊 Week 13: Principal component analysis

📊 Week 14:

Visualization of spatial data

Visualization of Sri Lanka

Visualization of spatial data