Surveys and qualitative data

Readings due before class on Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Required

• Treasuring All Truth
• Chapters 5 and 8 in Stephanie Evergreen, Effective Data VisualizationStephanie D. H. Evergreen, Effective Data Visualization: The Right Chart for the Right Data (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2017).
  
  
• Six Ideas for Displaying Qualitative Data
• Word clouds considered harmful
• Word clouds cause death… or something
• When It’s Ok to Use Word Clouds
• The Class of 2011
• Sentiment Analysis of The Book of Mormon
• Tweet by @s_soroka

Questions to reflect on

• Why is qualitative data difficult to visualize?
• Why are word clouds so problematic? When is (not) okay to use them?