Dr. L.J. Zigerell recently published the article, “Introducing Political Science Students to Data Visualization Strategies”, in the Journal of Political Science Education.
Data visualization is an important tool for communicating research results. This manuscript discusses a method that instructors can use to introduce political science students to visualizations and discusses strategies that instructors can share with students about how to create high-quality visualizations. These strategies can help students make visualizations that avoid common shortcomings in published political science visualizations.
The Journal of Political Science Education is political science’s leading journal on teaching and learning that publishes the highest quality scholarship and research on teaching and pedagogical issues in political science.
Zigerell is an associate professor of politics and government at Illinois Stata University, with a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Pittsburgh. Zigerell’s research specialization is racial attitudes, and he has taught courses involving judicial process, constitutional law, inequality, quantitative reasoning, and research methods. Zigerell has published in journals such as Political Research Quarterly and PS: Political Science and Politics, and he currently serves on the editorial board of the Social Science Journal.
