presenting data
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Final Paper (4000 Words); due May 14
A. Introduction: present your topic, questions, thesis and theoretical discussion 500 Words
B. Methods: present your research design discussing how it is that the data collection strategies you deploy will answer your questions and advance your thesis. You may include data collection tools that you used during data collection as appendices.
1500
C. Data and Results: present what your collection yielded 1000
D. Analysis/Discussion: discuss what your data means 500
E. Conclusions: Summarize your argument and state your main conclusions/findings. 500
Presenting Data
• Fry’s Seven Stages of Data– Acquire– Parse– Filter– Mine– Represent– Refine– (Interact)
• Tufte’s Rules– Show the data– Be accurate– Make large datasets
coherent– Serve a clear purpose– Reveal different levels– Encourage for ‘reading’
• Data Visualization vs. Infographics– Garbage in, Garbage out
http://flowingdata.com/ http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/
UN HDR 2010
UN HDR 2010
Flash Visualizations
• http://www.gapminder.org/
• http://projects.flowingdata.com/walmart/
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Guess the percentages
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Latinos Whites Asians Blacks
Latinos Whites Blacks0
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Latinos Whites Asians Blacks
Simple formatting changes improve legibility
Latinos Whites Blacks0
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Latinos Whites Blacks
Get your axes right: the X (horizontal) axis is the independent variable.
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GPIA Concentration
GPIA Concentration
Cities and UrbanizationConflict and SecurityDevelopmentGovernance and RightsMedia and CultureMilano
GPIA Concentration
Answer Options Response Percent
Response Count
Cities and Urbanization 0.0% 0Conflict and Security 13.0% 3Development 21.7% 5Governance and Rights 39.1% 9Media and Culture 30.4% 7Milano 0.0% 0
answered question 23
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