Data
Nathan Garrett, PhD CPA
Refreshed 2024-06-04
Why look at data?
Outcomes:
- Identify a pattern underlying data (Vanhove’s 16 different data distributions)
- Describe chart-junk
- Differentiate between a cross-sectional and longitudinal data set
- Describe problem with a non-zero vertical axis
- Rank order types of charts based on error rate
- Describe different attributes making things pop (pre-attentive attributes)
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Measures Differences
Day length