Part 1: Introduction – Data Visualization Fundamentals and Best Practices with Robert Kosara

When do you use a bar chart over a line chart? What are area charts good for? What's wrong with pie charts? Learn about how these different types of data visualization work, and how they're used, in Observable's first data visualization course! Attend lectures (or watch them later), ask questions, and once you've completed a small assignment at the end, you'll earn a certificate.


00:00 – Introduction
05:55 – Recommended Books
13:08 – What is Data?
17:44 – Why visualize?
26:58 – Anscombe's Quartet
29:18 – Bar Charts
41:33 – Pie Charts
44:57 – Line Charts
49:22 – Q&A

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If I may,

40:15 = tables are a form of visualization when wisely designed.
40:45 = yes! visualization is about seeing the shape or form of the data. When respond better to numbers is a graphical format.

Great class!