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Course Outline and Readings


C#     Date Topics Handouts/Deadlines
0 Setting Up RStudio Handouts
1 Jan. 13 Data Visualization Ur-Text and Starting R
Reading
  • Tufte, Part 1
  • Chang Chapter 1, Chapter 15:1-15:7, 15:15-15:18
Handouts
Jan. 20 MLK Holiday
2 Jan. 27 Intro to Nuts and Bolts of Visualization and Data Prep in R
Reading
Due
  • Tutorial 1
Handouts
  • Tutorial 2
  • Lecture notes
3 Feb. 3 Levels and Shares, Bars and Lollipops
Reading
Due
  • Tutorial 2.
  • Policy brief proposal
Handouts
  • Tutorial 3
  • Lecture notes
4 Feb. 10 Histograms and Distributions
Reading
Due
  • Tutorial 3.
Handouts
  • Tutorial 4
  • Lecture notes
Feb. 17 Presidents Day
5 Feb. 24 Maps I and Data via API
Reading
  • Manson, Mapping, Society and Technology, Chapter 3
  • Great dot density from Post here; if you can't get the full article, the picture of goats is here
  • Discuss how to get data via API
Due
  • Fully Composed Chart
  • Tutorial 4.
Handouts
  • Tutorial 5
  • Lecture Notes
6 March 3 Functions and Storyboarding
Reading
  • Knaflic, Chapters 7 and 8
Due
  • Tutorial 5.
Handouts
  • Tutorial 6
  • Lecture notes
  • In-class workshop instructions
Mar. 10 Spring Break
7 Mar. 17 Maps II and Themes
Reading
Due
  • Tutorial 6.
Handouts
  • Tutorial 7
  • Lecture notes
8 March 24 Student Consultations
  • No in person class
  • Instead, consultations the week prior; sign up coming here
Due
  • Tutorial 7.
9 Mar. 31 Line charts and Annotations
Reading
  • Few, Chapter 10, pages 217-220 (on lines) and Chapter 13
  • Chang, Chapter 4 and Chapter 7
  • How to adjust for inflation; how to normalize to 1
Handouts
  • Tutorial 8
  • Lecture notes
  • Final presentation and paper instructions
10 April 7 Guest speaker and In-class workshop
Due
  • Tutorial 8.
  • Materials to your classmates for in-class workshop
Handouts
  • Lecture notes
11 April 14 Scatter plots
Reading
  • Friendly and Denis, “The Early Origins and Development of the Scatterplot”, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 2005. [link] (skim is sufficient)
  • Few, Chapter 10, pages 206-210 (on scatters) and Chapter 11
  • Chang, Chapter 5
  • Discuss formatting gridlines, tick marks, axis lines, borders
Handouts
  • Tutorial 9
  • Lecture notes
12 April 21 Storytelling, Accessibility and Interactivity
Reading
Due
  • Tutorial 9
Handouts
  • Tutorial 10
  • Lecture notes
13 April 28 Presentations and feedback
  • Presentations
Due
  • Tutorial 10
14 Wed. April 30 Presentations and feedback
  • Presentations
Mon., May 5 Due
  • Policy brief

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