Course Schedule
The schedule below is a tentative outline of our plans for the semester.
For each class period, please start by reviewing the associated Learning Goals, review/finish the daily activity (turn in exercises for assignments by deadline), and watch/read the indicated optional videos/readings to supplement your understanding.
Week 1
| Date | Topic | In Class: Activity |
After Class: Checkpoint/Homework |
Additional Resources (Optional) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/3 | Introductions | Activity 1 | CP1 on Moodle | Readings: Tidy Data, by Wickham, Çetinkaya-Rundel, & Grolemund Videos: Setting up for success in the course, by Lisa Lendway Introduction to RStudio, by Alicia Johnson Check version of R and RStudio, by Lisa Lendway RStudio tour, by Lisa Lendway |
| 9/5 | RStudio Workshop | Activity 2 (qmd) | CP2 on Moodle HW1 (Exercises from today’s activity) Due 9/10 |
Readings: Introduction to Quarto, by Wickham, Çetinkaya-Rundel, & Grolemund |
Week 2
| Date | Topic | In Class: Activity |
After Class: Checkpoint/Homework |
Additional Resources (Optional) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/10 | Data Viz | Activity 3 (qmd) Set up NY Times Subscription (Free to you through Mac) |
CP3 on Moodle HW2 (qmd) Due 9/19 |
Readings: Data visualization, by Wickham, Çetinkaya-Rundel, & Grolemund Layered grammar of graphics, by Wickham, Çetinkaya-Rundel, & Grolemund A grammar for graphics (Chp 3), by Baumer, Kaplan, and Horton Aesthetic mapping (Chp 2), by Wilke Visualizing distributions (Chp 7), by Wilke Telling a Story (Chp 29), by Wilke Videos: Intro to ggplot , by Lisa Lendway |
| 9/12 | Bivariate Viz | Activity 4 (qmd) | CP4 on Moodle HW2 (qmd) Due 9/19 |
Readings: Visualizing amounts (Chp 6), by Wilke Videos: ggplot demo, Lisa Lendway Common ggplot mistakes, Lisa Lendway |
Week 3
| Date | Topic | In Class: Activity |
After Class: Checkpoint/Homework |
Additional Resources (Optional) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/17 | Multivariate Viz + Creativity | Meet in Idea Lab in the Library! Activity 5 (qmd) Idea Lab Activity |
CP5 on Moodle HW3 Due 9/24 |
Readings: Visualize This (Chp 7), by Yau Videos: More ggplot, Lisa Lendway |
| 9/19 | Spatial Viz | Activity 6 (qmd) | CP6 on Moodle HW3 Due 9/24 |
Readings: Visualize This (Chp 8), by Yau Spatial data visualization (Chp 17, intro and 17.1), by Baumer et al. Videos: Plotting data on a map with ggmap, Lisa Lendway Glamour of graphics, Will Chase (slides here) |