SDS 236
2025-03-11
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/06/opinion/working-class-death-rate.html
Some answers:
Yau, Data Points, 2013
Do:
Don’t:
Sequential
Diverging
Categorical
Big Idea: color choices matter and there are better and worse choices
Map saturation to numeric variable
No more than 5–6 levels
People interpret high saturation as more
Map saturation to numeric variable
No more than 5–6 levels
People interpret high saturation as more
Map hue to numeric variable
Generally, no more than 2 anchor colors
People interpret darker hue as more
Two colors used to indicate extremes of a range
Neutral color in the middle
distinguish between zero and missing
Different color = different category
choose colors that are
RColorBrewer
packagescale_color_brewer()
functionviridis
bbplot
from the BBCI tried a ggplot for the last graphic! Here is a link to my Github for the code and data table:https://t.co/B1k83Y0DTd pic.twitter.com/zV4MZNdMe0
— Sarah Gillespie (@SarahG4567) April 4, 2019