Week 8: Visualizing Distributions

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Author

George I. Hagstrom

Published

October 18, 2026

Welcome to Week 8!

Week 8 is going to be about how to visualize probability distributions, focusing on distributions that have at least some continuous component. These are visualized using plots like histograms, frequency-polygons, density-plots, empirical-CDF plots, qq-plots, and ridge plots. Your reading assignment is Chapters 7-9 of Fundamentals of Data Visualization. Data Story 4 is due next Sunday at midnight.

Thanks,

Sincerely,

George