Relationships
Readings
- Chapter 9 in Alberto Cairo, The Truthful Art1
- Chapter 12 in Claus Wilke, Fundamentals of Data Visualization2
- Kieran Healy, “Two y-axes”
- Two Alternatives to Using a Second Y-Axis & Illusion of success & Dissecting two axes
- Dual-Scaled Axes in Graphs: Are They Ever the Best Solution?3
Recommended
Questions to reflect on
(Remember, you don’t need to answer all of these—or even any of them! These are just here to help guide your thinking.)
- How can you correctly and honestly communicate relationships between variables? How can you communicate the uncertainty in those relationships?
- What are the dangers of visualizing two variables?
- When is it appropriate to use two y-axes?
Slides
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Videos
Videos for each section of the lecture are available at this YouTube playlist.
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Alberto Cairo, The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication (Berkeley, California: New Riders, 2016). ↩︎
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Claus E. Wilke, Fundamentals of Data Visualization (Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly Media, 2018), https://clauswilke.com/dataviz/. ↩︎
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Stephen Few, “Dual-Scaled Axes in Graphs: Are They Ever the Best Solution?” Visual Business Intelligence Newsletter, March 2008, http://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/visual_business_intelligence/dual-scaled_axes.pdf. ↩︎
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Petra Isenberg et al., “A Study on Dual-Scale Data Charts,” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 17, no. 12 (2011): 2469–78, doi:10.1109/tvcg.2011.160. ↩︎