Learning Vis Tools

Welcome to the tutorial of COMP 4462 Data Visualization! You can find the materials used in the tutorial sessions here.

While the lectures are focused on the principles of data visualization, the tutorials will focus on how to use the tools to make visualizations in practice.

Besides these materials, you can find the course materials on Canvas.

Directory

#	Topic	Materials	Link to Tools
1	Introduction to visualization tools and warm-up with MS Excel visualization	Slides
2	Visualization with Tableau and data processing	Slides	Download and install Tableau: Student (Full version, require student verification) Public (Free version with limitations)
3	Where to find visualizations and interesting datasets?	Slides
4	Data scientist toolbox 1: Python, Jupyter Notebook and Pandas	Jupyter Notebook Slides	Google Colab
5	Data scientist toolbox 2: Pandas and Python visualization	Jupyter Notebook Slides
6	Visualization with Javascript 1: Javascript basics and Observable	Observable Notebook Slides	Observable
7	Visualization with Javascript 2: Vega-Lite and data processing libraries	Observable Notebook Slides
8	Visualization with Javascript 3: Visualization with D3.js	Observable Notebook Slides
9	Visualization with Javascript 4: Visualization and interaction with D3.js	Observable Notebook Slides

References

Excel

• Coursera: Data Visualization with Advanced Excel (PwC)

Tableau

• Coursera: Data Visualization with Tableau (Duke University)
• Tableau Training Videos

Pandas

• Python for Data Analysis: Data Wrangling with Pandas, NumPy, and IPython (Wes McKinney)
  • GitHub of materials and Jupyter notebooks

Altair

• Altair user guide

Vega-Lite

• Vega-Lite Examples
• Vega on Observable

D3.js

• Interactive Data Visualization for the Web: An Introduction to Designing with D3 (Scott Murray)
  • GitHub of materials and code examples

And a lot of amazing visualization examples and datasets!

Credits

These materials are created by Leo Yu Ho Lo, Yao Ming and Li Wenchao.

And thanks to Prof. Huamin Qu teaching this amazing course!