Workshop: Data Storytelling for Covid-19

LSESU Data Science Society Workshop: Data Storytelling for COVID-19

Facebook Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/966562630487972

In our first workshop, we introduced the potential of using programming to visualise data, using COVID-19 data as an example. We show examples in Python, R, depending on your preference.

Slides available here

Colab Notebook (Python)

Colab Notebook (R)

We explore:

Python

Using Matplotlib and Plotly to produce plots - line plots, scatterplots
How to visualise text - bar plots, wordcloud
Using Bokeh to produce heatmaps

Using plot(), ggplot to produce plots - line plots, scatterplots
How to visualise text - bar plots, wordcloud
Producing heatmaps

Further Learning

Python Data Science Handbook, Vanderplas, J.: https://jakevdp.github.io/PythonDataScienceHandbook/

R for Data Science, Wickham, H. : https://r4ds.had.co.nz/

07/10/2020