Data visualizations are visual representations of data, usually descriptive statistics. Dataviz, as they are often known, range from graphs to infographics, images to maps, social network analyses to scatterplots, and on and on. The .pdf below is a helpful 101 about how data visualizations work in terms of conveying and convincing. You will primarily be crafting spatial data visualizations, i.e. maps, in this course but it will be good for you to get a grasp on how data visualizations work more broadly.

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