Data Visualization

For each class, we will spend the first half of class discussing general principles of data visualization. The second half of each class we'll spend working on programming, with an assignment that you will begin and complete as homework. This outline is preliminary and subject to change.

C#	Date	Topics	Handouts
0		Setting Up RStudio	Notes
1	Jan. 28	Data Visualization Ur-Text and Starting R Reading Tufte, Part 1 Chang Chapter 1, Chapter 15:1-15:7, 15:15-15:18	Lecture Notes Tutorial Policy brief info
2	Feb. 4	Intro Nuts and Bolts of Visualization and Data Prep in R Reading Few, Chapters 3 and 5 Tuva's Graph Choice Chart	Lecture Notes Tutorial
3	Feb. 11	Histograms and Distributions Guest speaker Kate Rabinowitz, Graphics Report, Washington Post Prior to the Post, Kate did cool work at DataLensDC Reading Few, Chapter 6 Chang, Chapter 6 (through 6.5) McGinty, “Grasping Giant Number is Far From Second Nature”, Wall Street Journal	Lecture Notes Tutorial Due: Policy brief proposal
	Feb. 18	Presidents' Day
4	Feb. 25	Univariate: Levels and Shares, Bars Reading Few, Chapters 9 and 10 Chang, Chapter 3 Merrill and Leatherby, “Here's How America Uses Its Land”	Lecture Notes Tutorial
5	Mar. 4	Maps I Reading Monmonier, Chapters 1 and 2	Lecture Notes Tutorial
	Mar. 11	Spring Break
6	Mar. 18	Functions and Storyboarding Reading Knaflic, Chapters 7 and 8	Lecture Notes Tutorial In-class workshop handout
7	Mar. 25	Maps II Reading Monmonier, Chapter 6 Takenaga, “How the Times Makes Those Addictive Election Maps”, New York Times	Lecture Notes Tutorial
8	April 1	Over time: Line charts Reading Few, Chapter 13 Chang, Chapter 4	Lecture Notes Tutorial
9	April 8	In-class workshop Guest speaker Adam Bookman, LMI, Trachenberg MPA 2015	Lecture Notes
10	April 15	Student Consultations Outside class hours Sign up for slots here
11	April 22	Scatter plots Reading Few, Chapter 11 Chang, Chapter 5	Lecture Notes Tutorial
12	April 29	Storytelling and Themes Reading Knaflic, Chapter 9 Mulbrandon	Lecture Notes Tutorial Paper and Comments Instructions
13	Wed., May 1	Presentations KJ/KE, EW, MP, AM/MF, IT/PH, SS, ES/ID How to comment
14	Thu., May 2	Presentations JB/MD, KL, ME, GM, WD/AF, ER, JG
	Fri., May 3		Policy brief due

1. How to create a R Markdown file
• R Markdown pdf
• R Markdown .Rmd file

Send me your graphic by 9 am on the day of the lecture. I'll put graphics in the slides. You come prepared with

• 3 critiques
• 2 improvements

C#	Presenters
2	SS, JG, ES
3	KJ, KL, AM
4	PH, JB
5	ER, WD
6	EW, MP
7	MF, IT
8	MD, GM
9	KE, AF
11	ME, ID