Elements of Data Visualization (Fall 2024)

Course Related Links

• Syllabus

Online Courses and Books

• Deep Learning for Computer Vision
• Numerical Python in Astronomy and Astrophysics
• Interactive Data Visualization

Online Papers on Visualization

• Perception in Visualization: Healey
• Simultaneous and Successive Contrast
• Color Blindness Simulator
• Magic Number Seven

Python Links

• Writing Your First Python Program
• Python Programming Language
• Python Reference Manual

Python Tutorials

• Official Python Tutorial
• Dive Into Python
• Think Like a Computer Scientist
• Python for Astronomers

Data Science in Python

• Miniconda Installation
• Jupyter Notebook Tutorial
• Documentation on Jupyter Notebook
• Tutorial on Markdown
• MatPlotLib
• Short Tutorial on MatPlotLib
• NumPy
• Quick Start to NumPy
• SciPy
• SciPy Tutorial
• Python Pandas
• Tutorial on Pandas
• SymPy
• Tutorial on SymPy

Data Science Cheat Sheets

• MatPlotLib Beginner Handout
• MatPlotLib Intermediate Handout
• Tips on MatPlotLib
• MatPlotLib Cheat Sheet
• Notes on Pandas
• NumPy Notes I
• NumPy Notes II
• Notes on Seaborn

Visual Vocabulary

• From Data to Visualization
• Visual Vocabulary from Tableau
• Designing with Data

Programming Challenges

• Coding Bat
• Kattis
• Leet Code
• Geeks for Geeks
• Computing Olympiad
• Python Challenge
• Project Euler
• Challenging Programs from ACM
• Ruby Quiz
• Top Coder
• Google Code Jam
• Code Kata

Research Tools

• MathSciNet
• Learn LaTeX
• LaTeX Tutorial
• LaTeX for Beginners
• YT Visualization Tool
• Visualization in Astronomy
• AstroPy
• Plotly Python
• Vega-Altair: Declarative Visualization in Python

Resources for Scholarly Research

• JSTOR
• Google Scholar

Misc Links

• Tutorial on Pandas Datetime

Tutorial on SQL

• Lecture Notes on SQL
• SQL Tutorial at W3Schools
• Interactive Online SQL Training
• SQL Tutorial Introduction
• Sky Server SQL Tutorial
• Nested SQL Queries
• PostgreSQL Tutorial
• SQL Injection Cartoon

Public Data Sets

• Publicly Available Data Sets
• Data is Plural
• Visual Analytics Benchmark Repository
• Enigma Public Data
• Visualizing Data
• World Data Bank
• Nightingale Data Viz Challenge
• Kaggle Data Sets
• IBM Data Sets

Tools for Data Visualization

• Dashboarding Tools
• Plotly
• Plotly Examples
• Tutorial on Plotly
• Merging Data Frames
• Tutorial on NetworkX
• PyVis Tutorial

Interesting Data Visualization Sites

• WTF Visualizations

Machine Learning

• Kaggle
• Tutorial on Machine Learning
• Coursera Machine Learning