Distributions and uncertainty

Readings due before class on Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Required

• Chapters 4, 7, and 11 in Alberto Cairo, The Truthful ArtAlberto Cairo, The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication (Berkeley, California: New Riders, 2016).
  
  
• Why It’s So Hard for Us to Visualize Uncertainty
• Amanda Cox’s keynote address at the 2017 OpenVis Conf
• Communicating Uncertainty When Lives Are on the Line
• Showing uncertainty during the live election forecast & Trolling the uncertainty dial

Questions to reflect on

• Why is it important to deal with uncertainty in data?
• What was good or bad about the New York Times’ 2016 live election guage?
• Why is it so hard to visualize uncertainty?
• Why is it so hard to communicate uncertainty to others?