Statistics 107 - Foundations of Data and Visualization

Pictures, plots, and visualizations can be incredibly effective ways to understand information, tell stories, and make arguments. But how do you know if a picture is telling the truth? How do you make a picture that tells your story? In this course, we'll explore ways to understand, critique, and create different types of data visualizations: things you'll see in the news and generate in your future jobs. We'll also focus on building foundational skills and comfort with data, code, and tools that will prepare you not just for future statistics and data science courses, but also for the ever-growing quantitative component of work in the humanities and social sciences.