1. Number -- A zero-dimensional datum

Lecture 1 of "Data Visualization"
R.W. Oldford Fall 2020 University of Waterloo Course
Topics:
- encoding-decoding
- representing a number
- biological and cultural bases for number knowledge
- pictures and meaning
- what numbers are "natural" to us
- representing large and small numbers, and randomness
- use of narrative, scale changes, averages
- seeing and communicating