Lab Seminar: Data Visualization (Gal Koss) and Egg Timers (Jordan Trinh, Aisha Ali)
This week, the Lab hosted a two-part seminar. First, Gal Koss presented on best practices for data visualization, graphing, and plotting. Gal discussed Edward Tufte and seminal work The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, the Coolors palette generator tool, and how to avoid "chartjunk." Some data visualization resources from Gal are attached at the end of this post.
Jordan Trinh and Aisha Ali also presented five minute egg timer talks on their in-progress research. Jordan's work explores the benefits of intertemporal trading in the California water market setting. Aisha'ss work examines the enforcement of low emission zones in Rwanda and potential effects on health and educational outcomes.
Gal's data visualization resources:
Edward Tufte: I recommend Visual Display. Here are some online PDFs of his books:
R code for Tufte plots: http://motioninsocial.com/tufte/
R function for Tufte theme: ggthemes::theme_tufte()
Colors! coolors.co
Specific shoutout to the palette generator (demonstrated in lab), gradient generator, gradient palette, and image picker tools. The whole website is a blast with many fun and useful features.
My website if you want to see paintings I like: galkoss.me :)