BITL2 - Introduction to Visualization Labs - Spring 2023

Other offerings of this course: Spring 2022, Spring 2023

Time: Thursdays 11:10 - 12:50
Lecture instructors: Leo Selavo, Oskars Radzins
Lab instructor: Jānis Lazovskis, janis.lazovskis@rbs.lv
Internal page: ORTUS e-studijas
Office: 404, Skolas iela 11
Drop-in hours: Every day, bookable at Calendly
Syllabus: link

Projects

Project 1: List of topics + grading scheme
Project 2: Description + grading scheme

Lab material

Instructions and additional files for the weekly labs.

5 January: introduction, using Google Sheets / Microsoft Excel
- sample data for use in lab
12 January: Using Power BI
- multicolumn table for use in lab
19 January: Using Python
26 January: Combining visuals and text into a final product
- sample data for use in lab
2 February: Different visual types
9 February: Critiquing and improving visuals
16 February: Basic statistics
- accompanying notebook for use in lab
- Datasets to use in the lab: bees, pesticides, climate
2 March: Emphasis
9 March: Guest lecturers from KPMG: data science PowerBI
15 March: Working with large and difficult data
- accompanying notebook for use in lab