Master the art and science of data visualization with Northwestern's top specialists in a series of engaging workshops designed to take your skills from basic to brilliant. Dive into the world of static, dynamic, and interactive visualizations, and explore GIS tools, R, and Python through hands-on sessions. Plus, get personalized guidance on your projects during our daily drop-in office hours with expert advice. Don't miss this opportunity to elevate your data visualization game!
The sessions are organized into tracks. From Monday to Thursday, the first track is Mapping (9:30am - 11am), then R (11am - 12:30pm), and then Python (1:30pm - 3pm). Friday will include a "grab bag" of additional resources. Each day there will be drop-in "office hours" from 3pm - 4pm, where you can get individualized help and feedback on your data visualization projects.
All sessions are in the North Study Lounge of Mudd Library.
Links to each workshop's GitHub repo are provided below (where available) within the daily schedule. For more information on each workshop, please see the PlanitPurple website.
- 9:30am - 11:00am (Mapping) : Introduction to Spatial Data
- 11:00am - 12:30pm (R) : Introduction to Data Visualization*
- 1:30pm - 3:00pm (Python) : Introduction to Data Visualization*
- 3:00pm - 4:00pm : Drop-in office hours
* These two workshops have nearly identical content, with the only difference being the coding language used for the demos at the end. We recommend only attending one.
- 9:30am - 11:00am (Mapping) : Creating Web Maps with ArcOnline
- 11:00am - 12:30pm (R) : Creating Static Figures with R + ggplot2
- 1:30pm - 3:00pm (Python) : Creating Static Figures with Python + matplotlib
- 3:00pm - 4:00pm : Drop-in office hours
- 9:30am - 11:00am (Mapping) : Creating Static Maps with ArcPro and QGIS
- 11:00am - 12:30pm (R) : Creating Interactive Figures with R + Shiny
- 1:30pm - 3:00pm (Python) : Visualizing Data with Seaborn
- 3:00pm - 4:00pm : Drop-in office hours
- 9:30am - 11:00am (Mapping) : Using Satellite Imagery To Detect Change with ArcPro
- 11:00am - 12:30pm (R) : Creating Interactive Dashboards with R + Flexdashboard
- 1:30pm - 3:00pm (Python) : Creating Interactive Figures with Plotly + Python
- 3:00pm - 4:00pm : Drop-in office hours
- 10:00am - 11:00am : Exploring 3D Data with ParaView
- 11:30am - 1:00pm : Making publication-ready figures in R
- 2:00pm - 3:00pm : Data exploration using Glue
- 3:00pm - 4:00pm : Drop-in office hours
- Méch Frazier, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Specialist at the Northwestern Libraries
- Aaron Geller, Senior Data Visualization Specialist at Research Computing and Data Services and Research Associate Professor at CIERA
- Ritika Giri, Data Scientist at Research Computing and Data Services
- Yangyang Li, Ph.D. Candidate and Data Visualization Student Consultant at Research Computing and Data Services
- Kelsey Rydland, Head of Digital Scholarship and Research Data Management at the Northwestern Libraries
- Colby Witherup Wood, Manager of Data Science Services at Research Computing and Data Services