Data Visualization

C#	Date	Topics	Handouts/Deadlines
0		Setting Up RStudio	Handouts Tutorial 0
1	Jan. 23	Data Visualization Ur-Text and Starting R Reading Tufte, Part 1 Chang Chapter 1, Chapter 15:1-15:7, 15:15-15:18 Watch -- except I forgot to record this class Class recording [link]	Handouts Lecture notes 1 Tutorial 1 Policy brief proposal assignment Fully composed chart assignment Good/Bad/Ugly assignment
2	Jan. 30	Intro to Nuts and Bolts of Visualization and Data Prep in R Reading Few, Chapters 3 and 5 Tuva's Graph Choice Chart Watch Class recording [link]	Due Tutorial 1. See answers [link] Handouts Tutorial 2 Lecture notes, pictures only Lecture Notes
3	Feb. 6	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 Watch Class recording [link]	Due Tutorial 2. See answers [link] Policy brief proposal Handouts Tutorial 3 Lecture notes, figures only [link] Lecture notes [link]
4	Feb. 13	Histograms and Distributions Reading Few, Chapter 6 Chang, Chapter 6 (through 6.5) Merrill and Leatherby, “Here's How America Uses Its Land” Watch Class recording [link]	Due Tutorial 3. See answers [link] Handouts Tutorial 4 Lecture notes [link] Lecture notes, figures only [link]
	Feb. 20	Presidents Day
5	Feb. 27	Maps I and Data via API Reading Monmonier, Mapping it Out, Chapters 1 and 2 Great dot density from Post here; if you can't get the full article, the picture of goats is here Watch Class recording [link]	Due Fully Composed Chart Tutorial 4. See answers [link] Handouts Tutorial 5 Lecture Notes [link] Lecture notes, pictures only [link]
6	March 6	Functions and Storyboarding Reading Knaflic, Chapters 7 and 8 Watch Class recording [link]	Due Tutorial 5. See answers [link] Handouts Tutorial 6 Lecture notes [link] Lecture notes, pictures only [link] In-class workshop instructions [link]
	Mar. 13	Spring Break
7	Mar. 20	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	Due Tutorial 6. See answers [here]. Handouts Tutorial 7 Lecture notes [link] Lecture notes, pictures only [link]
8	Mar. 27	Line charts and Annotations Reading Few, Chapter 10, pages 217-220 (on lines) and Chapter 13 Chang, Chapter 4 and Chapter 7	Due Tutorial 7. See answers [here]. Handouts Tutorial 8 Lecture notes, pictures only [link] Lecture notes [link] Final presentation and paper instructions [link]
9	April 3	Guest speaker and In-class workshop Kate Rabinowitz, Graphics Editor, Washington Post In-class workshop	Due Tutorial 8. See answers [here]. Materials to your classmates for in-class workshop Handouts Lecture Notes
10	April 10	Scatter plots and Color 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 Tutorial 9 Lecture notes, pictures only [link] Lecture Notes [link]
11	April 17	Student Consultations No in person class Instead, consultations the week prior; sign up here
12	April 24	Storytelling, Accessibility and Interactivity Reading Knaflic, Chapter 9 Few, Chapter 10, pages 224-246 (secondary component design) On minimal reproducible examples, and a specific R case	Due Tutorial 9 Handouts Tutorial 10 Lecture notes Lecture notes, pictures only [link]
13	May 1	Presentations and feedback Presentations	Due Tutorial 10
14	Wed. May 3	Presentations and feedback Presentations
	Mon., May 8		Due Policy brief

• Presenters and Commenters list here [link]
• 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