The Beauty of Data Visualization
Here is an easy and short discussion post: watch this Ted Talk on data visualization.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zg-C8AAIGg
Watch the video, then answer the following questions:
- Summarize the video in a few sentences (2-4)
- Why is it important to visualize data in specific ways? Give at least three reasons.
- How can visualizing data help us confront our biases?
- Think of downsides to visualized data. How can visualizations cause us to miss certain things in the data?
- Did anything in particular stand out to you from this video?