Course: Principles and practice of data visualisation












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            * Course: Principles and practice of data visualisation
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            Visualization has long been regarded as a kind of second-rate pastime in data analysis. Nu
            come first, and their translation into graphs was rather a pleasant aftertaste. This appro
            changing in recent decades. Since Edward Tufte's influential publications on visualization

            scientific community has come to realize that data visualization is not only crucial for t
            communication of scientific conclusions, but also a powerful tool in its own right for exp
            and generation of knowledge. The seminar will introduce selected general principles of eff

            visualization as well as specific applications on illustrative examples such as "how to do


            The aim of the seminar is to present data visualization as a scientific subdiscipline that
            available software, deserves increasing space in everyday scientific work.


            After the initial presentation of the principles, we will focus on the concept of "grammar
            introduced by Leland Wilkinson in the book of the same name. We will quickly move from thi
            its most famous implementation, which is the ggplot2 library (Hadley Wickham) written for 

            statistical language R. Participants will be introduced to work with this software. The am
            course is to raise students' interest in the efficient, extremely flexible and relatively 
            data visualization offered by the ggplot2 library. Students will also take away a large am

            available materials for further self-study.

            Tutor:

            Mgr. Jaromír Mazák, Ph.D. from Faculty of Arts
            More about tutor: HERE [ URL "https://ksoc.ff.cuni.cz/en/staff/jaromir-mazak/"] .


            Type of event: course
            Organiser: rectorate of Charles University - Doctoral Studies Office
            Organiser's contact: jitka.rychnova@ruk.cuni.cz [ URL "mailto:jitka.rychnova@ruk.cuni.cz"]


            Format: online meeting (TEAMS)
            Time: 17th May from 10:00 to 11:30 (90 minutes)

            Participants: The course is intended mainly for Ph.D. students

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