Outline and Meetings | Good/Bad/Ugly

C#	Date	Topics	Handouts/Deadlines
0		Setting Up RStudio	Handouts Tutorial 0
1	Jan. 13	Data Visualization Ur-Text and Starting R Reading Tufte, Part 1 Chang Chapter 1, Chapter 15:1-15:7, 15:15-15:18	Handouts Tutorial 1 [link] Policy brief proposal [link] Fully composed chart [link] Good/Bad/Ugly [link]
	Jan. 20	MLK Holiday
2	Jan. 27	Intro to Nuts and Bolts of Visualization and Data Prep in R Reading Few, Chapters 3 and 5 Tuva's Graph Choice Chart	Due Tutorial 1 Handouts Tutorial 2 How to make a pdf using quarto, [link]
3	Feb. 3	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 Discuss legends and keys	Due Tutorial 2. Policy brief proposal Handouts Tutorial 3
4	Feb. 10	Histograms and Distributions Reading Few, Chapter 6 Chang, Chapter 6 (through 6.5) Discuss formatting text, numbers, dates	Due Tutorial 3. Handouts Tutorial 4
	Feb. 17	Presidents Day
5	Feb. 24	Maps I and Data via API Reading Manson, Mapping, Society and Technology, Chapter 3 Great dot density from Post here; if you can't get the full article, the picture of goats is here Discuss how to get data via API	Due Fully Composed Chart Tutorial 4. Handouts Tutorial 5
6	March 3	Functions and Storyboarding Reading Knaflic, Chapters 7 and 8	Due Tutorial 5. Handouts Tutorial 6 In-class workshop instructions [link]
	Mar. 10	Spring Break
7	Mar. 17	Maps II and Themes Reading Manson, Mapping, Society and Technology, Chapter 7 Takenaga, “How the Times Makes Those Addictive Election Maps”, New York Times Chang, Chapter 9: 9.2 to 9.6 Discuss choosing colors	Due Tutorial 6. Handouts Tutorial 7
8	March 24	Student Consultations No in person class Instead, consultations the week prior; sign up here	Due Tutorial 7.
9	Mar. 31	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 to 1	Handouts Tutorial 8 Final presentation and paper instructions [link]
10	April 7	Guest speaker and In-class workshop Guest speaker McCall Pitcher In-class workshop	Due Tutorial 8. Materials to your classmates for in-class workshop Handouts
11	April 14	Scatter plots 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	Handouts Tutorial 9
12	April 21	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
13	April 28	Presentations and feedback Hallie, Raquel, Maria, Caroline, Cade, Katelyn, Emma	Due Tutorial 10 -- see Shiny apps you created [link]
14	Wed. April 30	Presentations and feedback Natalie, Maddie, Liz, Amanda, Caden, Eric, Sandra	Handouts Lecture notes [link]
	Mon., May 5		Due Policy brief

• Presenters and Commenters list coming 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