Distributions & Uncertainty

Readings due before class on Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Required

• Chapter 7: Histograms and density plots, Chapter 8: Empirical cumulative distribution functions, Chapter 9: Visualizing many distributions at once and Chapter 16: Visualizing uncertainty in Claus Wilke, Fundamentals of Data VisualizationClaus E. Wilke, Fundamentals of Data Visualization (Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly Media, 2018), https://serialmentor.com/dataviz/.
  
  

• Multiple Views Blog: Uncertainty Visualizations Explained by Jessica Hullman and Matthew Kay

Recommended

• Why It’s So Hard for Us to Visualize Uncertainty

• Showing uncertainty during the live election forecast & Trolling the uncertainty dial⊕ Figure 2 from Ivelina Momcheva and Erik Tollerud, “Software Use in Astronomy: An Informal Survey,” July 14, 2015, https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.03989.
  
  

• UW Interactive Data Lab, “Value-Suppressing Uncertainty Palettes”