| Name | Area | Max.depth | Watershed.area | Chain.of.lakes? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bde Maka Ska | 421 acres | 89.9 feet | 2,992 acres | Yes |
| Lake Harriet | 353 acres | 82. feet | 1,139 acres | Yes |
| Lake Nokomis | 204 acres | 33.1 feet | 869 acres | No |
| Cedar Lake | 170 acres | 50.9 feet | 1,956 acres | Yes |
| Lake of the Isles | 103 acres | 30.8 feet | 735 acres | Yes |
What ‘Counts’ as Statistical Communication?
Textbook
Communicating with Data: The Art of Writing for Data Science. Deborah Nolan and Sara Stoudt.
Visualizing data– handmade data viz
Begin with inspiration.
In my classes, I talk about visualization as art, as well as art as visualization. (What ‘counts’?)
Visualizing data– handmade data viz
Curate a small dataset. I recommend fewer than 10 rows, but at least two variables.
Bring craft supplies!
Visualizing data– handmade data viz
Share out afterward
Writing about data– one number story
“Keep the number of digits in a paragraph below eight.”
“You’d be over your allocation with a sentence like this: The Office of Redundancy’s budget rose 48 percent in 2013, from $700.3 million to $1.03 billion.
Think about how it could change:
Over the past year, the Office of Redundancy’s budget grew by nearly half, to $1 billion.”
– Sarah Cohen, Numbers in the Newsroom
