Recap

Skill Mastery

The fundamentals

  • Data manipulation
  • Basic graphics/plots
  • Basic statistical test
  • Tools available

Reference (參考) other people's philosophy

  • Wickham's Tidyverse
  • Tukey, Cleveland, Tufte's principles
  • Dushoff, Gelman and others P-value clarity

Skill Mastery (Con't)

Perfect your own unique philosophy/principles

  • Practice, practice, practice
  • Put your own twist
  • Be honest (avoid hack techniques)
  • Open to suggestions
  • Defend your philosophy

A glimpse at my data vis philosophy

The Dark Side

Challenging the past

  • Mental image as a starting basis

  • Simplicity (Minimal graphics) vs Clarity tradeoffs

NBA Eastern Conference Standings

NBA Western Conference Standings

Challenging the past (Con't)

  • Mental image as a starting basis

  • Simplicity (Minimal graphics) vs Clarity tradeoffs

  • Speed, flexibility

  • Presentation, accessibility

Technological Era

Being one with vis

Being one with vis (Con't)

Real time synchro

Coffee adventure!

  • TH @ Bymac (Athletic Centre)
  • TH in MDCL (✔)
  • Caffeine the Elements
  • Bistro@DSB (Business School)
  • E-Cafe (ETB building, i.e. Engineering)
  • Fireball Cafe (John Hodgins, ✔)
  • My Mini Mac (Mary Keyes building)
  • The Reactor Cafe (Thode library)
  • Starbucks @ Student Center (✔)
  • TH @ Student Center (✔)
  • Williams @ HSC (✔)