PS 3780 Indiana State University Data Literacy & Visualization Project
Assignment 2
PS 3780 Data Literacy & Visualization, Spring 2023
Due Date: Friday, February 3, 2023 at 11:59 p.m.
This assignment is designed to test your ability to gather, aggregate, evaluate and describe
data. Additionally, this assignment tests your ability to dierentiate between dierent
forms of data visualization.
Please save your answer to these questions as one
.pdf le (use the save as function in most word processors). Be sure to include your
name, your teammate’s name if there is anyone, and the assignment number. Submit all
les to Carmen by the due date.
Gapminder
Think about what might account for diering levels of happiness across countries. Go to
Gapminder World (https://www.gapminder.org/tools/), select the Y (vertical) axis,
and select Happiness score (WHR) under the Society category. What do you think would
correlate with this measure, internationally? Scan the available data on the X axis and
try out a couple variables.
Make sure to select a variable for which there is data on
enough countries on a long enough time period. Select one of the variables you looked
at and evaluate the relationship between that variable and happiness. Why do you think
you might be seeing those patterns in the data? Use the links button to create a short
URL to your graph. Along with this link, write 1-2 paragraphs describing the patterns
you see in the data and speculating about what might have produced them. (3 points)
Datawrapper
Download a CSV le of the variable you compared to Happiness in the question above.
(On the Gapminder page, go to Facts Data and type in the name of the variable
you selected.) Use this dataset and Datawrapper (https://www.datawrapper.de/) to
generate a Choropleth map of the world. Select a recent year for which most countries
have values and correct the names of unmatched countries.
What year did you select
and what is the variation for you chosen variable around the world in that year? Does
there appear to be any geographic clustering of values or are the randomly spread across
the glob.
Include a screenshot of you map and write 1-2 paragraphs describing the
visualization and answering the questions. (4 points)
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Hey me, start the recording
DATA LITERACY AND
VISUALIZATION
PS 3780
Ryan Dawe
Software
R https://cran.case.edu/
Click link -> Click operating system -> Click base -> “Download R 4.2.2 for …” -> Install
RStudio Desktop https://posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop/
Click link -> Scroll down -> “Download RStudio Desktop … “
ParseHub https://www.parsehub.com/quickstart
Click link -> Click operating system -> Install
OutwitHub https://www.outwit.com/products/hub/
Click link -> Free Download -> Install
OpenRefine https://openrefine.org/download.html
Click link -> Select OpenRefine 3.6.2 under your operating systm
Lecture 3: All-in-one Databases
World Bank
https://data.worldbank.org/
Gapminder
https://www.gapminder.org/tools/
World Factbook
Guide to Country Comparisons – The World Factbook (cia.gov)
Google
https://books.google.com/ngrams/
PARTICIPATION: data.worldbank
Assignment 1
Due next Friday at midnight
Materials due:
One (1) PDF of written responses – all questions ask for something
Include screenshot of WorldBank visualization
One (1) CSV of cleaned OpenSecrets data
Upload everything on Carmen
See additional recording posted on Tuesday
DATA LITERACY AND
VISUALIZATION
PS 3780
Ryan Dawe
Course Introduction
Data Literacy
Comfort with numbers and numerical arguments
Ability to use numbers to support an argument
Understanding of the shortcomings of data and statistics
Data Visualization
Present visually compelling and informative figures
Analyze visualizations in formal and informal settings
Decide the appropriate visual style for various incentives
Course Syllabus
Online materials
Video lectures
Recitation recordings
Recitation slides
Recitation code (after week 6)
Software
See last slide
Problem sets
Final Project
Course schedule
Lecture descriptions
How to Succeed
Focus most heavily on the recitation materials
Start assignments early and freely ask questions
When asking questions share your progress as well as error
messages that appear
Interpret the question being asked in your own terms
Questions are easiest over email
Dawe.14@osu.edu
Watch the recitation recordings each week!
[parakeet]
Software
R https://cran.case.edu/
Click link -> Click operating system -> Click base -> “Download R 4.2.2 for …” -> Install
RStudio Desktop https://posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop/
Click link -> Scroll down -> “Download” under RStudio Desktop -> Install
ParseHub https://www.parsehub.com/quickstart
Click link -> Click operating system -> Install
OutwitHub https://www.outwit.com/products/hub/
Click link -> Free Download -> Install
OpenRefine https://openrefine.org/download.html
Click link -> Download OpenRefine 3.6.2 -> Install
