Watch the following free videos from Data Literacy Level 1. Videos 1.1 and 1.6 are optional. These are the foundational ideas around data visualization.
- 1.2 A review of Data Scale Types
- 1.3 Graphical Marks & Encoding Channels
- 1.4 Expressiveness of Encodings
- 1.5 Effectiveness of Encodings
Then watch CompSci216: Basic Plot Types video about basic plots and how to explain a spot on a graph from CompSci216’s course. You can skip slide 2 (the one after the title slide) and start the video at slide 3 at timestamp 0:38. We will not be coding in this class, so slide 2 is not relevant. You can stop watching the video at 10:44 after slide 21, since I do not expect you to know about kernel density estimation plots.
