April 1, 2014
All Day
170, 18th Avenue Building
Event Host: Department of Psychology
Contact Riepenhoff.19@osu.edu for questions.
Amanda Cox of The New York Times Graphics Department will present this year's Wherry lecture: Data Visualization at the New York Times.
The New York Times graphics department makes maps, charts and diagrams for the newspaper and its web site. Cox will discuss what news graphics have taught her about data visualization (distributions are more interesting than averages, a lot of good songs have backup singers, the annotation layer is very important), and some of the things she's still trying to figure out (how we treat uncertainty, how to make charts that play well with words). She will illustrate ideas you could learn in middle-school psychology (we're more successful when we make connections to things people already know; when you have a hammer, many problems look like nails), and leave plenty of time for a conversation about fancier ideas.
Contact Riepenhoff.19@osu.edu for questions.
