Data Visualization

C#	Date	Topics	Handouts/Deadlines
0		Setting Up RStudio	Handouts Tutorial 0
1	Jan. 10	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. 17	MLK Holiday
2	Jan. 24	Intro to Nuts and Bolts of Visualization and Data Prep in R Reading Few, Chapters 3 and 5 Tuva's Graph Choice Chart In-class recording	Due Tutorial 1 Handouts Tutorial 2 Lecture Notes
3	Jan. 31	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 In-class recording	Due Tutorial 2 Policy brief proposal Handouts Tutorial 3 Lecture Notes
4	Feb. 7	Histograms and Distributions Reading Few, Chapter 6 Chang, Chapter 6 (through 6.5) Merrill and Leatherby, “Here's How America Uses Its Land” In-class recording	Due Tutorial 3 Handouts Tutorial 4 Lecture Notes
5	Feb. 14	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 In-class recording	Due Fully Composed Chart Tutorial 4 Handouts Lecture Notes Tutorial 5
	Feb. 21	Presidents Day
6	Feb. 28	Functions and Storyboarding Reading Knaflic, Chapters 7 and 8	Due Tutorial 5 Handouts Tutorial 6 In-class workshop handout Lecture Notes
7	Mar. 7	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 In-class recording	Due Tutorial 6 Handouts Lecture Notes Tutorial 7
	Mar. 14	Spring Break
8	Mar. 21	Line charts and Annotations Reading Few, Chapter 10, pages 217-220 (on lines) and Chapter 13 Chang, Chapter 4 and Chapter 7 In-class recording	Due Tutorial 7 Handouts Lecture Notes Tutorial 8 Final presentation and paper instructions
9	Mar. 28	In-class workshop In-class workshop: instructions coming	Due Tutorial 8 Materials to your classmates for in-class workshop Handouts Lecture Notes
10	April 4	Guest speaker and Scatter plots and Color Guest Speaker Quoctrung Bui, Graphics Editor, New York Times 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	Handouts Lecture Notes Tutorial 9
11	April 11	Student Consultations No in person class Instead, April 7 meetings: sign-up here
12	April 18	Storytelling, Accessibility and Interactivity Reading Knaflic, Chapter 9 Few, Chapter 10, pages 224-246 (secondary component design) Mulbrandon On minimal reproducible examples, and a specific R case In-class recording	Due Tutorial 9 Handouts Lecture Notes Tutorial 10
13	April 25	Presentations and feedback Presentations due We offer feedback in groups, TDB	Due Tutorial 10
14	Wed. April 27	Video Presentations and feedback We offer feedback in groups, TDB
	Mon., May 2		Due Policy brief

• 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