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Course Outline and Readings


C#     Date Topics Handouts/Deadlines
0 Setting Up RStudio Handouts
1 Aug. 24 Data Visualization Ur-Text and Starting R
Reading
  • Tufte, Part 1, Chapters 1 and 2
  • Chang Chapter 1, Chapter 15:1-15:7, 15:15-15:18
 Handouts
  • Tutorial 1 [link]
  • Policy brief proposal
  • Fully composed chart
  • Good/Bad/Ugly
2 Aug. 31 Intro to Nuts and Bolts of Visualization and Data Prep in R
Reading 		In class
  • Quiz 1
Due
  • Tutorial 1
Handouts
  • Tutorial 2
  • Lecture notes
Sept. 7 Labor Day
3 Sept. 14 Levels and Shares, Bars and Lollipops
Reading 		In class
  • Quiz 2
Due
  • Tutorial 2.
  • Policy brief proposal
Handouts
  • Tutorial 3
  • Lecture notes
4 Sept. 21 Histograms and Distributions
Reading
  • Few, Chapter 6, pages 117-127.
  • Chang, Chapter 6, 6.1 to 6.5
  • Discuss formatting text, numbers, dates
 In class
  • Quiz 3
Due
  • Tutorial 3.
Handouts
  • Tutorial 4
  • Lecture notes
5 Sept. 28 Maps I and Data via API
Reading
  • Manson, Mapping, Society and Technology, Chapter 7
  • How to get data via API
 In class
  • Quiz 4
Due
  • Fully Composed Chart
  • Tutorial 4.
Handouts
  • Tutorial 5
  • Lecture Notes 5
6 Oct. 5 Functions and Storyboarding
Reading
Supplemental
In class
  • Quiz 5
Due
  • Tutorial 5.
Handouts
  • Tutorial 6
  • In-class workshop instructions
  • Lecture notes 6
Oct. 12 Fall Break
7 Oct. 19 Maps II and Themes
Reading
  • Manson, Mapping, Society and Technology, Chapter 5
  • Takenaga, “How the Times Makes Those Addictive Election Maps”, New York Times
  • Chang, Chapter 9: 9.2 to 9.6
  • Discuss choosing colors
  • Great dot density from Post here; if you can't get the full article, the picture of goats is here
 In class
  • Quiz 6
Due
  • Tutorial 6
Handouts
  • Tutorial 7
  • Lecture notes 7
8 Oct. 26 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 and avoid two axes
 In class
  • Quiz 7
Due
  • Tutorial 7.
Handouts
  • Lecture notes
  • Tutorial 8
9 Nov. 2 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
  • Discuss formatting gridlines, tick marks, axis lines, borders
In class
  • Quiz 8
Due
  • Tutorial 8.
Handouts
  • Lecture notes
  • Tutorial 9
10 Nov. 9 Guest speaker and In-class workshop
  • Guest speaker TBD
  • In-class workshop
 In class
  • Quiz 9
Due
  • Tutorial 9.
  • Materials to your classmates for in-class workshop
Handouts
  • Lecture notes
  • Final presentation and paper instructions
11 Nov. 16 Student Consultations
  • No in person class
  • Instead, consultations same day, 20 minutes per student. Sign up coming here.
Nov. 23 Thanksgiving Break
12 Nov. 30 Storytelling, Accessibility and Interactivity
Reading 		Handouts
  • Tutorial 10
  • Lecture Notes 12
13 Dec. 7 Presentations and feedback
  • List students here when finalized.
Due
  • Tutorial 10 -- I'll post interactives you created here
14 Wed. Dec. 9 Presentations and feedback
  • List students here when finalized.
Handouts
15 Mon., Dec. 14 Due
  • Policy brief

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