Financial Data Science with SAS

Chapter 2: Exploring and Visualizing Financial and Economic Data

Learning and Communicating Using Visualizations

Most people learn through a combination of the four generally accepted learning styles: visual learning, auditory learning, reading and writing, and kinesthetic learning (learning by doing). Interconnecting with these learning styles are methods of communication, which are verbal, non-verbal, written, listening, and visual communication. Apparent in Figure 2.1 are the overlaps between how we learn and how we communicate. Indeed, two key objectives of communications that are related to the job of a data scientist are to use data to inform and to influence. In the data science domain, to inform implies using data to convey knowledge ...