Develop lectures on visualizing uncertainty

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Draft title: Visualizing Uncertainty & Avoiding the Misrepresentation of Data

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Resources

• 16 Visualizing uncertainty, from Fundamentals of Data Visualization, by Claus Wilke
• Visualizing Uncertainty, thesis by Zheng Yan Yu
• Visualizing the Uncertainty in Data, by Nathan Yau
• Visualizing Uncertainty, by Michael Friendly

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Interesting data sets

• The National Hurricane Center Forecast Verification, from Data is Plural 2024-07-03

Hurricane forecast accuracy. The National Hurricane Center says it “receives frequent inquiries on the accuracy and skill of its forecasts and of the computer models available to it.” To help answer those questions, the agency publishes a series of regularly-updated verification reports, as well as a database quantifying its forecast errors. For each official projection since 1970, the database compares each storm’s predicted location and wind speed to those attributes’ ultimate values. As seen in: “The Social Value of Hurricane Forecasts,” a study by Renato Molina and Ivan Rudik.

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Unsure if this is relevant, but possibly, and it looks interesting regardless: Alberto Cairo on Misleading Data and Visualizations (talk for the Urban Institute, ~1.5hrs)