Best practices in data visualization

Lecture

Introduction slides, Lecture Video

Matplotlib tutorial (IPython notebook: HTML, .ipynb)

Exercises

Instructions are on this page.

The archive below contains all files required for the exercises:

datavis.tgz

Please download and unpack using:

tar xzvf datavis.tgz

Solution

Additional resources

Points of view column in Nature Methods

Matplotlib tag on StackOverflow

Matplotlib User guide

Matplotlib Examples

Data Stories podcast

Colorbrewer

Materials from previous schools

Kiel 2012

St Andrews 2011

Trento 2010