Summary

I hope this was an interesting (and informative) exploration into some of the science behind one of the more destructive forces on Earth. In this chapter, we learned about several new visualizations including geomap, bar chart, histogram, and heatmap. We have also become familiar with the transformation functions and how they can help shape data to facilitate analysis. We even learned a little about the power-law distribution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law) and how it governs many of the common processes in nature.

In our next chapter, we bring together much of what we’ve learned in the past few chapters. We’ll apply these skills toward a concrete result: assembling panels into engaging and informative dashboards.