Data Visualization

Course Outline and Readings

C#	Date	Topics	Handouts/Deadlines
0		Setting Up RStudio	Handouts Tutorial 0
1	Jan. 11	Data Visualization Ur-Text and Starting R Reading Tufte, Part 1 Chang Chapter 1, Chapter 15:1-15:7, 15:15-15:18 Pre-recorded lecture and in-class recording	Handouts Lecture Notes Tutorial 1 Tutorial 1 answers and .Rmd that creates pdf Policy brief proposal assignment Fully composed chart assignment Good/Bad/Ugly assignment
	Jan. 18	MLK Holiday
2	Jan. 25	Intro to Nuts and Bolts of Visualization and Data Prep in R Reading Few, Chapters 3 and 5 Tuva's Graph Choice Chart Pre-recorded lecture and in-class recording	Due Tutorial 1 Handouts Lecture Notes: recorded, full Tutorial 2, answers
3	Feb. 1	Levels and Shares, Bars and Lollipops Reading Few, Chapters 9 and Chapter 10, pages 210-217 (on bars) Chang, Chapter 3 McGinty, “Grasping Giant Numbers is Far From Second Nature”, Wall Street Journal Great lollipop from Wall Street Journal here. Full article is “In Triumph or Tragedy, View of Trump Don't Waver”, Wall Street Journal Pre-recorded lecture and in-class recording	Due Tutorial 2 Policy brief proposal Handouts Lecture Notes Tutorial 3
4	Feb. 8	Histograms and Distributions Reading Few, Chapter 6 Chang, Chapter 6 (through 6.5) Merrill and Leatherby, “Here's How America Uses Its Land” Pre-recorded lecture and in-class recording	Due Tutorial 3 Handouts Lecture Notes, prerecorded Tutorial 4
	Feb. 15	Presidents Day
5	Feb. 22	Maps I and Data via API Reading Monmonier, How to Lie, Chapters 1 and 2 Great dot density from Post here; if you can't get the full article, the picture of goats is here Pre-recorded lecture and in-class recording	Due Fully Composed Chart Tutorial 4 Handouts Lecture Notes, prerecorded Tutorial 5
6	Mar. 1	Functions and Storyboarding Reading Knaflic, Chapters 7 and 8 Pre-recorded lecture and in-class recording	Due Tutorial 5 Handouts Lecture Notes, pre-recorded Tutorial 6 In-class workshop handout
7	Mar. 8	Maps II and Themes Reading Monmonier, Mapping it Out, Chapter 6 Takenaga, “How the Times Makes Those Addictive Election Maps”, New York Times Chang, Chapter 9: 9.2 to 9.6 Pre-recorded lecture and in-class recording	Due Tutorial 6 Handouts Lecture Notes Tutorial 7
	March 15	Spring Break
8	March 22	Line charts and Annotations Reading Few, Chapter 10, pages 217-220 (on lines) and Chapter 13 Chang, Chapter 4 and Chapter 7 Pre-recorded lecture and in-class recording	Due Tutorial 7 Handouts Lecture notes Tutorial 8 Final presentation and paper instructions
9	March 29	DV at work and in-class workshop DV at work: Talk with former students McCall Pitcher and Kimberly Wilson In-class workshop: instructions coming	Due Tutorial 8, answers Materials to your classmates for in-class workshop Handouts Lecture notes
10	April 5	Guest speaker and Scatter plots and Color Guest Speaker Kate Rabinowitz, Data Reporter, Washington Post See her Twitter and her old webpage 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 Pre-recorded lecture	Handouts Lecture notes Tutorial 9
11	April 12	Student Consultations April 8: sign-up here
12	April 19	Storytelling and RShiny Reading Knaflic, Chapter 9 Few, Chapter 10, pages 224-246 (secondary component design) Mulbrandon Great WSJ graphs that move Pre-recorded lecture and in-class recording	Due Tutorial 9 Handouts Lecture notes Tutorial 10
13	April 26	Video Presentations and feedback Video presentations due We offer feedback in groups, TDB	Due Tutorial 10
14	Thurs. April 29	Video Presentations and feedback We offer feedback in groups, TDB
	Mon., May 3		Due Policy brief

Good, Bad and Ugly Assignment

Presenters and Commenters list here
Finders must

link a graphic on the sheet by the Wednesday noon following the lecture

Commenters must

come prepared with three specific points
these can be criticisms, appreciations, or suggestions
criticisms are best paired with suggestions

Each student is a presenter once and a commenter once