Course Schedule
The schedule below is a tentative outline of our plans for the semester.
For each class period, please start by reviewing the associated Learning Goals, review/finish the daily activity (turn in exercises for assignments by deadline), and watch/read the indicated optional videos/readings to supplement your understanding.
Week 1
| Date | Topic | In Class: Activity |
After Class: Checkpoint/Homework |
Additional Resources (Optional) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/3 | Introductions | Activity 1 | CP1 on Moodle | Readings: Tidy Data, by Wickham, Çetinkaya-Rundel, & Grolemund Videos: Setting up for success in the course, by Lisa Lendway Introduction to RStudio, by Alicia Johnson Check version of R and RStudio, by Lisa Lendway RStudio tour, by Lisa Lendway |
| 9/5 | RStudio Workshop | Activity 2 (qmd) | CP2 on Moodle HW1 (Exercises from today’s activity) Due 9/10 |
Readings: Introduction to Quarto, by Wickham, Çetinkaya-Rundel, & Grolemund |
Week 2
| Date | Topic | In Class: Activity |
After Class: Checkpoint/Homework |
Additional Resources (Optional) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/10 | Data Viz | Activity 3 (qmd) | CP3 on Moodle HW2 (qmd) Due 9/19 |
Readings: Data visualization, by Wickham, Çetinkaya-Rundel, & Grolemund Layered grammar of graphics, by Wickham, Çetinkaya-Rundel, & Grolemund A grammar for graphics (Chp 3), by Baumer, Kaplan, and Horton Aesthetic mapping (Chp 2), by Wilke Visualizing distributions (Chp 7), by Wilke Telling a Story (Chp 29), by Wilke Videos: Intro to ggplot , by Lisa Lendway |
| 9/12 | Bivariate Viz | Activity 4 (qmd) | CP4 on Moodle HW2 (qmd) Due 9/19 |
Readings: Visualizing amounts (Chp 6), by Wilke Videos: ggplot demo, Lisa Lendway Common ggplot mistakes, Lisa Lendway |
Week 3
| Date | Topic | In Class: Activity |
After Class: Checkpoint/Homework |
Additional Resources (Optional) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/17 | Multivariate Viz + Creativity | Meet in Idea Lab in the Library! Activity 5 (qmd) Idea Lab Activity |
CP5 on Moodle HW2 (qmd) Due 9/19 |
Readings: Visualize This (Chp 7), by Yau Videos: More ggplot, Lisa Lendway |
| 9/19 | Spatial Viz | Activity 6 (qmd) | CP6 on Moodle HW3 (qmd) Due 9/26 |
Readings: Visualize This (Chp 8), by Yau Spatial data visualization (Chp 17, intro and 17.1), by Baumer et al. Videos: Plotting data on a map with ggmap, Lisa Lendway Glamour of graphics, Will Chase (slides here) |
Week 4
| Date | Topic | In Class: Activity |
After Class: Checkpoint/Homework |
Additional Resources (Optional) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/24 | Effective Viz | Activity 7 (qmd) | CP7 on Moodle HW3 (qmd) Due 9/26 Review for Quiz 1 |
Readings: Equity Awareness for Data Visualizations, by Urban Institute Telling a story (Chp 29), by Wilke |
| 9/26 | Wrangling Verbs | Activity 8 (qmd) | CP8 on Moodle HW4 (qmd) Due 10/8 Review for Quiz 1 |
Readings: Data transformation, by Wickham, Çetinkaya-Rundel, & Grolemund Data wrangling on one table, by Baumer, Kaplan, and Horton Videos: Intro to dplyr, Lisa Lendway Demonstration of dplyr, Lisa Lendway |
Week 5
| Date | Topic | In Class: Activity |
After Class: Checkpoint/Homework |
Additional Resources (Optional) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10/1 | Quiz 1 - Viz | CP8 on Moodle HW4 (qmd) Due 10/8 |
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| 10/3 | Wrangling Practice | Activity 9 (qmd) | CP9 on Moodle HW4 (qmd) Due 10/8 |
Week 6
| Date | Topic | In Class: Activity |
After Class: Checkpoint/Homework |
Additional Resources (Optional) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10/8 | Reshaping Data | Activity 10 (qmd) |
CP10 on Moodle HW5 (qmd) Due 10/15 |
Readings: Pivoting and narrow v. wide formats, by Wickham, Çetinkaya-Rundel, & Grolemund Reshaping data, by Baumer, Kaplan, and Horton Videos: Demonstration of pivoting, Lisa Lendway |
| 10/10 | Joins | Activity 11 (qmd) | CP11 on Moodle HW5 (qmd) Due 10/15 |
Readings: Joins, by Wickham, Çetinkaya-Rundel, & Grolemund Data wrangling on multiple table, by Baumer, Kaplan, and Horton Videos: Demonstration of joining data, Lisa Lendway |
Week 7
| Date | Topic | In Class: Activity |
After Class: Checkpoint/Homework |
Additional Resources (Optional) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10/15 | Working with character data: Factors | Activity 12 (qmd) | CP12 on Moodle HW6 (qmd) Due 10/24 |
Readings: Factors, by Wickham, Çetinkaya-Rundel, & Grolemund Videos: Working with factors using forcats, Lisa Lendway |
| 10/17 | FALL BREAK | NO CLASS |
Week 8
| Date | Topic | In Class: Activity |
After Class: Checkpoint/Homework |
Additional Resources (Optional) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10/22 | Working with character data: Strings | Activity 13 (qmd) | CP13 on Moodle HW6 (qmd) Due 10/24 |
Reading: Strings, by Wickham, Çetinkaya-Rundel, & Grolemund Regular expressions, by Baumer, Kaplan, and Horton Tutorials and tools: Working with strings, by Lisa Lendway RegExplain RStudio addin by Garrick Aden-Buie regexr exploration tool |
| 10/24 | Midsemester Review | Midterm Review Activity 14 (qmd) |
Review for Quiz 2 |
Week 9
| Date | Topic | In Class: Activity |
After Class: Checkpoint/Homework |
Additional Resources (Optional) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10/29 | Quiz 2 - Wrangling | 5 | ||
| 10/31 | Data Import | Activity 15 (qmd) | CP14 on Moodle | Readings: Data import, by Wickham, Çetinkaya-Rundel, & Grolemund Missing data, by Wickham, Çetinkaya-Rundel, & Grolemund Data intake, by Baumer, Kaplan, and Horton Videos: Using the import wizard, Lisa Lendway |
Week 10
| Date | Topic | In Class: Activity |
After Class: Checkpoint/Homework |
Additional Resources (Optional) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/5 | EDA | Activity 16 | HW7 (qmd) Due 11/7; Project Milestone 1: Pre-Project Survey due 11/6 5pm | Readings: Exploratory Data Analysis, by Wickham, Çetinkaya-Rundel, & Grolemund Exploratory Data Analysis Checklist, by Peng |
| 11/7 | Project Brainstorming | Activity 17 | HW8 (qmd) Due 11/14; Project Milestone 2: Project Interest Survey due 11/11 at 5pm |
Week 11
| Date | Topic | In Class: Activity |
After Class: Checkpoint/Homework |
Additional Resources (Optional) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/12 | Project Narrowing | Activity 18 | HW8 (qmd) Due 11/14 | |
| 11/14 | Crafting Sentences | Activity 19 | Work on Project Data (Finalize data by 11/19) + One Number Story (draft due 11/21 in class) |
Week 12
| Date | Topic | In Class: Activity |
After Class: Checkpoint/Homework |
Additional Resources (Optional) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/19 | Presenting Viz | Activity 20 | ||
| 11/21 | Written Communication: Peer Review | Activity 21 | Final One Number Story Due 11/26 |
Week 13
| Date | Topic | In Class: Activity |
After Class: Checkpoint/Homework |
Additional Resources (Optional) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/26 | Present Data Visualization & Critique | Activity 22 | ||
| 11/28 | Thanksgiving Break | NO CLASS |
Week 14
| Date | Topic | In Class: Activity |
After Class: Checkpoint/Homework |
Additional Resources (Optional) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12/3 | Project Planning | Progress Reports due 12/5 | ||
| 12/5 | Project Work Time | Project Narrative / Report due 12/10 |
Week 15
| Date | Topic | In Class: Activity |
After Class: Checkpoint/Homework |
Additional Resources (Optional) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12/10 | Project Work Time / End of Course Survey | Final Project Presentations during Final Exam Period |