{"id":1749,"date":"2017-10-25T12:54:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T19:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/?page_id=1749"},"modified":"2017-10-25T12:54:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T19:54:03","slug":"this-is-fun-how-do-i-do-more-of-this","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/tutorials-guides\/data-visualization\/this-is-fun-how-do-i-do-more-of-this\/","title":{"rendered":"This is fun, how do I do more of this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes DH students realize they actually love dataviz and want to learn more!<\/p>\n<p>UCLA doesn&#8217;t really offer classes on dataviz, except high-level ones in the Stats department, but we do have some resources to help you.<\/p>\n<p>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/oit.ucla.edu\/it-training\">Lynda collection<\/a> includes lots of data visualization tutorials. You might start with the one called &#8220;Data Visualization: Story.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On a professional level, dataviz people popularly use Tableau, the JavaScript library D3, and the programming language R. These are all topics you might begin to explore, through Lynda and the Library&#8217;s collection of ebooks.<\/p>\n<p>The Knight Foundation periodically offers <a href=\"http:\/\/journalismcourses.org\/\">online data journalism classes<\/a> that include visualization topics. I learned D3 this way and recommend the courses.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to learn in person, the Digital Humanities Summer Institute offers <a href=\"http:\/\/dhsi.org\/courses.php\">great courses in data visualization<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/dhsi.org\/scholarships.php\">scholarships are available<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dataviz specialists work in lots of capacities, from news organizations to marketing groups to research foundations. Some job titles that make use of data visualization skills: data journalist, data scientist, marketing specialist, data visualization specialist. You might find someone who has a career that looks interesting to you and contact them (with your <a href=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/tutorials-guides\/research-skills\/emailing-someone-you-dont-know\/\">exciting new emailing skills!<\/a>) to set up an <a href=\"https:\/\/career.berkeley.edu\/Info\/InfoInterview\">informational interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes DH students realize they actually love dataviz and want to learn more! UCLA doesn&#8217;t really offer classes on dataviz,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":137,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1749","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1749\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}