Introduction to Multivariate Data Visualization

This tutorial is an introduction to data visualization that focuses on the explorative analysis of multivariate (tabular) data. Interactive charts let you explore the data directly — no programming experience required.

This D3.js version of the tutorial walks through the same content as the original R/learnr tutorial, with fully interactive visualizations in your browser.

Contents

• Start — Motivation: why tables fall short and visualization helps
• Multivariate Data — What multivariate data is, and the world dataset we use throughout
• Univariate Analysis — Visualizing one variable at a time: item bars, histograms, boxplots
• Multivariate Analysis — Comparing multiple variables: scatterplots, scatterplot matrices, parallel coordinates

Fabian Beck and Shahid Latif, University of Bamberg. Supported by DataCampus UDE.