This chapter will teach you how to visualize data by exploring additional chart options such as histograms, box plots, and scatter plots to advance your data literacy skills. Storytelling with data starts with understanding the relationships that exist within the numbers, so we will learn about distribution curves and how they apply to analysis. During this discovery phase of analysis of your data, you will learn how to identify outliers and patterns along with best practices in visualizing geographic data. We will wrap up this chapter by learning the difference between correlation versus causation.
We will cover the following topics in this chapter:
- Explaining distribution analysis
- Understanding outliers and trends
- Geoanalytical techniques and tips
- Finding patterns in data
