Introduction to Data Visualization
Preparing the data
A course by Victor Pascual , Data Visualization Specialist
About the video: Preparing the data
Overview
“In order to carry out the project of the course, it is important to manage the spreadsheets efficiently. In this lesson we will see some tricks of Google Spreadsheets that usually also work in other tools such as Excel. Among other things, we will see how to use keyboard shortcuts to work more efficiently. In addition, we will see what the z-score is and we will see how to calculate it to allow a homogeneous comparison between the values obtained from different series.”
In this video lesson Victor Pascual addresses the topic: Preparing the data, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Data Visualization. Create interactive visualizations and learn to represent data from your favorite series.
Partial transcription of the video
“Hello once more. we concluded the previous lesson by extracting the season and episode from the cell where everything was initially combined. Now. we have all the values. let's call them raw. but they are clean and organized. This sets a solid foundation for our next steps. we've cleaned our data a bit. Now what we need is First. generate the final dataset. that is. in this case. for example. season and episode is something we will no longer need because we already have it broken down in another column. And. For instance. position and length are details we don't want in our final file. righ...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Data Visualization
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Infographics, Information Design, Interactive Design, Multimedia
Victor Pascual
A course by Victor Pascual
Víctor Pascual is a self-confessed lover of scientific data visualization, who has a doctorate in computer science and digital communication. He dedicated his doctoral thesis to researching new methods for representing web data and has been a data scientist and data visualization specialist since 2009.
After three years as part of the Bestiario team, Víctor began his new adventure as a data analysis and visualization consultant for companies including SIRIS Academic and Mobile Media Content, where he leads a diverse range of R&D projects.
Víctor is also committed to training in information visualization, which led him to codirect Spain's first postgraduate course on the subject (IDEC) as well as participate in a number of different conferences and workshops. He currently collaborates with different master's and postgraduate degree programs.
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