Homework 8: Visualization and Descriptive Statistics

Posted: October 21, 2026 Due: Wednesday, November 4, 2026 at 23:59 Status: Scheduled

Describe a dataset both numerically and visually, and confront what each summary hides. You will compute measures of center and spread, characterize distribution shape and outliers, and choose chart types that match the question you are asking — with honest encoding, complete labels, and figures saved for reuse.

Related session: Session 9 — Visualization and Descriptive Statistics

Topics Covered

  • Summary statistics — mean, median, variance, standard deviation — and what each one hides
  • Distribution shape, spread, skew, and outliers
  • Matching a chart type to a question: histograms, bar charts, scatter plots, line plots
  • Honest visual encoding; labeling, titling, and saving figures

Instructions

The detailed tasks, dataset, and submission instructions for this assignment have not been posted yet. Please check back after the October 21 session.