Annotations

Content for Monday, July 3, 2023–Friday, July 7, 2023

Readings

• Chapter 17, Chapter 18, Chapter 19, and Chapter 21 in Fundamentals of Data Visualization (Wilke 2018)
• Chapter 5 in Data Visualization (Healy 2018)
• Cara Thompson, “Level Up Your Labels: Tips and Tricks for Annotating Plots”

Slides

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Tip

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Videos

Videos for each section of the lecture are available at this YouTube playlist.

• Introduction
• Fretting the little things
• Text in plots
• Seeds

You can also watch the playlist (and skip around to different sections) here:

References

Healy, Kieran. 2018. Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction. Princeton: Princeton University Press. http://socviz.co/.

Wilke, Claus E. 2018. Fundamentals of Data Visualization. Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly Media. https://clauswilke.com/dataviz/.