Unit 2: Lesson 11 & 12 Making Data Visualizations Discover a Data Story

Let’s Get Started Quiz Journal Check Next Class Lesson 11 Lesson 12

Making Data Visualizations Build visualizations from provided datasets Use Google Sheets

Making Data Visualizations Make different chart types (scatter, line, and bar charts) from a single data set. Purpose of this lesson is to explore and experiment with creating different types of visualizations, not to build the perfect chart.

Watch Video Video- How to Make a Graph in Google Sheets (Scatter Plot)

Making Data Visualizations Visualizing the data allows you to see patterns, trends or relationships you might otherwise not.

Making Data Visualizations A large data set is too big to understand by looking at a table in a spreadsheet Creating a data visualization with a computer is faster and more accurate than creating one by hand

What is It Showing? Non-Hockey Fans? Hockey Fans? Helpful to Players?

Making Data Visualizations Complete Code.org Lesson 11 and Make a Chart PDF- Making Data Visualizations MovieRating-avgRatingByAgeByGender.csv

Discover a Data Story It is usually hard to see patterns in a dataset when viewing it in its raw form. Computational tools like summary tables and visualizations make it easier to find interesting trends and relationships

Discover a Data Story --Terminology— README: a document providing background information about a dataset CSV: abbreviation of “comma-separated values,” this is a widely-used format for storing data Raw data: the original data as it was collected Summary table: a table of aggregate information about a dataset (e.g., the average, sum, count of some values)

Discover a Data Story Datasets - Click to see folder College Ranking Data International Health & Wealth Data Movie Rating Data Personality Test Data Twitter Data

Discover a Data Story Complete Code.org Lesson 12

Thursday Class- Journal Vocabulary Chart Examples Daily Info Graphic Review Finish Lessons