Workshop Announcement: Vega for Data Visualization, 5/18/16

[Jessica Mizzi]

Upcoming workshop: Vega for Data Visualization

Time: May 18, 2016, 9:15 am - 12:15 pm PST

Instructor: Jeff Heer, Dominik Moritz, Ham Wongsuphasawat, University of Washington

Location: DSI Space, UC Davis Campus 

Visualizations can be a powerful to to efficiently explore data and to communicate your research results. However, creating effective visualizations and picking the right tools can be tricky. In our hands on workshop we will show you how you can use Vega-Lite (https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/) to quickly create visualizations. We have created Vega-Lite as an easy to use visualization library for data exploration with smart defaults but also ways to customize charts for presentation. Our goal for this workshop is to create a visualization with you and then publish it on the internet.

In this hands on workshop you will learn how to:

- Create basic visualizations with Vega-Lite
- How to effectively encode your data
- Transform the data in Vega-Lite
- Customize visual appearance of the charts
- Embed visualizations in a web page
- Load your own data

This workshop will be taught remotely and broadcast to our classroom via Google 

Hangouts on Air. We will have helpers in our local room to facilitate the lesson. 

The lesson will also be streamed to YouTube and saved there for viewing at a later time.

For more information, see: http://dib-training.readthedocs.io/en/pub/2016-05-18-vega-lr.html

Davis participants register here (only if planning to come to the classroom): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vega-for-data-visualization-tickets-25275546841

Attendance policy: 

If you register for this workshop but cannot attend, please release your spot on 

EventBrite or contact Jessica Mizzi (jessic...@gmail.com). If you register but 

do not attend (which takes up a spot that could have gone to someone on our waitlist!), 

you may not be able to register for future workshops.