Data Visualisation¶
When should I visualise my data?¶
All of the time! At any point in a project, visualising your data and results is massively important!
At the start of a project, data visualisation helps you to understand your data, see trends and spot outliers.
During a project you will probably have to discuss your work with supervisors, collaborators, and peers, and diagrams make this much easier.
When you’re ready to present or write up what you’ve done, if you’ve made diagrams as you went you will already have lots of ready to go.
Making plots and diagrams can be particularly important when you are working on a computational project. When working computationally, you can go many days without feeling like you’ve made tangible progress. Making a diagram to describe an aspect of your work can help to combat this feeling, and helps you prove to yourself that you have made progress! This diagram doesn’t have to be complicated; for example you could just make a flowchart to describe the pipeline you’ve spent days reading up on, planning and installing.