Exercise 01

Data visualization in Psychological Science

Published

January 19, 2025

Modified

January 16, 2025

Dates

In-class work on Tuesday, January 14 and Thursday, January 16.

Write-up for credit due on Thursday, January 23.

Goals

In this exercise, you may choose to work alone or with a team of classmates to find data visualizations from the societies of three (3) professional associations and three (3) journals. You will add links to the visualizations to a common database that we will use for discussion about the types of visualizations and types of data that are commonly used in psychological science.

Assignment

Visit the websites of at least three (3) professional associations.

The following are examples. Feel free to choose a different professional society.

For each society website, find at least two visualizations of data.

Try to pick visualizations that are interesting to you in some way.

Add information about the visualizations to a Google Sheet that all of us will share:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1X-3kWpGAACdkAJ8-AeqYiu5TS6tRzpfdgXBYyPooCPo/edit?usp=sharing

Specifically, enter your team identifier in the identifier field, the source in source_type, and the URL in the url field. Please say briefly why you chose this particular visualization. If you have any comments to add, put those in the comments field.

During class on 2025-01-16, Gilmore added a url_to_figure field. If you want to add that, right click on the image and see if an option to ‘open image in new tab’ or ‘copy image address’ is available.

Important

You do not have to use your PSU ID as your identifier.

Gilmore did so just to provide some sample data.

Next, visit the websites of at least three (3) journals and do the same thing–pick at least two (2) visualizations from each of the journals.

Note that some societies publish one or more journals, so you might find a journal that interests you from the society website.

Here are some additional journal resources that you might find interesting to explore:

Important

The goal here is to gather via ‘crowd-sourcing’ a diverse set of visualizations. So, feel free to mix it up.

Submit

Everyone
- Your data to the shared Google Spreadsheet.
Students who want this submission to count for one of their four (4) required exercises
- A 2-3 page write-up in APA format where you describe three (3) figures your group found, the data that are presented, and what “story” the data are intended to tell.
- Students who work in teams should submit one (1) write-up with all of the authors’ names. One grade will be assigned.

--- title: "Exercise 01" subtitle: "Data visualization in Psychological Science" --- ## Dates {-} In-class work on Tuesday, January 14 and Thursday, January 16. Write-up for credit [due]{.orange_due} on [Thursday, January 23](../schedule.qmd#thursday-january-16). ## Goals {-} In this exercise, you may choose to work alone or with a team of classmates to find data visualizations from the societies of three (3) professional associations and three (3) journals. You will add links to the visualizations to a common database that we will use for discussion about the types of visualizations and types of data that are commonly used in psychological science. ## Assignment {-} 1. Visit the websites of at least three (3) professional associations. The following are examples. Feel free to choose a different professional society. - [American Psychological Association (APA)](https://www.apa.org) - [Association for Psychological Science (APS)](https://www.psychologicalscience.org) - [Vision Sciences Society](https://www.visionsciences.org) - [Society for Personality and Social Psychology](https://spsp.org) - [Society for Research in Child Development](https://www.srcd.org) - [Society for Research on Adolescence](https://www.s-r-a.org) - [Cognitive Neuroscience Society](https://www.cogneurosociety.org) - [Society for Neuroscience](https://sfn.org) - [Psychonomics Society](https://www.psychonomic.org) - [Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology](https://siop.org) 2. For each society website, find at least two visualizations of data. Try to pick visualizations that are interesting to you in some way. 3. Add information about the visualizations to a Google Sheet that all of us will share: <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1X-3kWpGAACdkAJ8-AeqYiu5TS6tRzpfdgXBYyPooCPo/edit?usp=sharing> Specifically, enter your team identifier in the `identifier` field, the source in `source_type`, and the URL in the `url` field. Please say briefly why you chose this particular visualization. If you have any comments to add, put those in the `comments` field. During class on 2025-01-16, Gilmore added a `url_to_figure` field. If you want to add that, right click on the image and see if an option to 'open image in new tab' or 'copy image address' is available. ::: {.callout-important} You do **not** have to use your PSU ID as your identifier. Gilmore did so just to provide some sample data. ::: 4. Next, visit the websites of at least three (3) journals and do the same thing--pick at least two (2) visualizations from each of the journals. Note that some societies publish one or more journals, so you might find a journal that interests you from the society website. Here are some additional journal resources that you might find interesting to explore: - [Science Magazine](https://www.science.org) - [Nature](https://www.nature.com) - [Nature Human Behavior](https://www.nature.com/nathumbehav) - [Trends in Cognitive Sciences](https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/home) ::: {.callout-important} The goal here is to gather via 'crowd-sourcing' a diverse set of visualizations. So, feel free to mix it up. ::: ## Submit {-} - Everyone - Your data to the shared Google Spreadsheet. - Students who want this submission to count for one of their four (4) *required* exercises - A 2-3 page write-up in APA format where you describe three (3) figures your group found, the data that are presented, and what "story" the data are intended to tell. - Students who work in teams should submit one (1) write-up with all of the authors' names. One grade will be assigned.