Data Visualization Workshop

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Sample Data View on GitHub

About the Workshop

Tuesday, July 7th, 1:00 - 3:00 PM
GSA, Room 4250

Facilitators

Chris Goranson, Jeff Chen, Erie Meyer & CFPB

About the Workshop

On the heels of the fantastic open data release by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (see http://www.consumerfinance.gov/complaintdatabase/), this workshop will provide those relatively new to data visualization tools with an opportunity to:

1. Learn about the CFPB data, and why the release is so important;

2. Learn a few basic data visualization types, uses, and broader exposure to data visualization taxonomies;

3. Learn some common do's and dont's when it comes to data visualization;

4. Explore a few free on-line data visualization tools using subsets of the CFPB data;

5. Have a hands-on opportunity to create and share your own data visualizations through an exploratory process.

Course Materials

Reminder: to participate in any of the tutorials, you'll need to bring your own laptop (and we'll bring the WiFi!)
Text used for reference (free ebook): "Interactive Data Visualization for the Web", by Scott Murray
Tutorial (Beginner): Introduction to RAW
Tutorial (Advanced): Visualization using D3.js, R, and Google Charts

Agenda

1:00 - 1:10 PM Very brief discussion on CFPB data, what's in there, basic into to data viz and other background information. Sharing a few cleaned and simplified datasets for the day.

1:10 - 1:20 PM Deep Dive into Data Viz

1:20 - 2:00 PM Short tutorials to a few super-awesome (and free) data visualization tools, walk-thru using CFPB data samples.

2:00 - 2:45 PM Group is cut loose to try building their own data visualizations.

2:45 - 3:00 PM Show and Tell, wrap-up discussion.