Overview

Teaching: 5 min
Exercises: 0 min
Questions
  • What is data visualization, really?

  • What are the roles of visualization in the geospatial data analysis pipeline?

Objectives
  • Develop an understanding of the value of learning data visualization tools.

  • Develop an understanding of the role of data viz in the geospatial researcher’s data pipeline.

What is Visualization? (stolen shamelessly from Dr. Jeffrey Heer’s course slides)

Why Visualization?

coal-exports Coal Exports, 1864. Charles Minard

minard-napoleonNapoleon’s 1812 Russian campaign, Charles Minard (1869)

Key Points