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.
Schedule
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| Date | Activity Topic & Assignments | Optional Readings/Videos | |||
| 1/19 |
1 Intro to R, RStudio, and R Markdown Slides for Today Assignment 1 Due Wednesday, January 25 at 11:59pm |
Readings: Introduction to R Markdown, by Wickham and Grolemund Tidy Data, by Wickham Tidy Data (12.1, 12.2), by Wickham and Grolemund Quarto, a VERY new alternative to R Markdown 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 R Markdown introduction, by Lisa Lendway |
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| Finish Assignment 1 (due 1/25). | |||||
| Week 2 | |||||
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| Date | Activity Topic & Assignments | Optional Readings/Videos | |||
| 1/24 |
Community Building Scavenger Hunt Slides for Today |
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| 1/26 |
2 Introduction to Data Visualization Set up NY Times Subscription (Free to you through Macalester) Tidy Tuesday Slides for Today Assignment 2 Due Wednesday, February 1 at 11:59pm |
Readings: Data visualization, by Wickham and Grolemund Layered grammar of graphics, by Wickham and 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 |
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| Finish Assignment 2 (due 2/1). | |||||
| Week 3 | |||||
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| Date | Activity Topic & Assignments | Optional Readings/Videos | |||
| 1/31 |
3 Effective Viz Slides for Today Assignment 3 Due Wednesday, February 8 at 11:59pm |
Readings: Equity Awareness for Data Visualizations, by Urban Institute Telling a story (Chp 29), by Wilke |
2/2 |
4 Bivariate Viz Slides for Today Assignment 3 Due Wednesday, February 8 at 11:59pm |
Readings: Visualizing amounts (Chp 6), by Wilke Videos: ggplot demo, Lisa Lendway Common ggplot mistakes, Lisa Lendway |
| Finish Assignment 3 (due 2/8) | |||||
| Week 4 | |||||
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| Date | Activity Topic & Assignments | Optional Readings/Videos | |||
| 2/7 |
Meet in Idea Lab in the Library! 5 Multivariate Viz Slides for Today Idea Lab Activity (Handmade Visualizations) Assignment 4 Due Wednesday, February 15 at 11:59pm |
Readings: Visualize This (Chp 7), by Yau Videos: More ggplot, Lisa Lendway |
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| 2/9 |
6 Spatial Viz Slides for Today Assignment 4 Due Wednesday, February 15 at 11:59pm |
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) |
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| Finish Assignment 4 (due 2/15) | |||||
| Week 5 | |||||
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| Date | Activity Topic & Assignments | Optional Readings/Videos | |||
| 2/14 |
7 Six Main Verbs Slides for Today Assignment 5 Due Wednesday, February 22 at 11:59pm |
Readings: Data transformation, by Wickham and Grolemund Data wrangling on one table, by Baumer, Kaplan, and Horton Videos: Intro to dplyr, Lisa Lendway Demonstration of dplyr, Lisa Lendway |
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| 2/16 |
8 Reshaping Data Slides for Today Assignment 5 Due Wednesday, February 22 at 11:59pm |
Readings: Pivoting and narrow v. wide formats, by Wickham and Grolemund Reshaping data, by Baumer, Kaplan, and Horton Videos: Demonstration of pivoting, Lisa Lendway |
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| Finish Assignment 5 (due 2/22) | |||||
| Week 6 | |||||
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| Date | Activity Topic & Assignments | Optional Readings/Videos | |||
| 2/21 |
9 Joining Slides for Today Assignment 6 |
Readings: Relational data, by Wickham and Grolemund Data wrangling on multiple table, by Baumer, Kaplan, and Horton Videos: Demonstration of joining data, Lisa Lendway |
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| 2/23 |
10 Factors Slides for Today Assignment 6 |
Readings: Factors, by Wickham and Grolemund Videos: Working with factors using forcats, Lisa Lendway |
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| Finish Assignment 6 (due 2/29) | |||||
| Week 7 | |||||
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| Date | Activity Topic & Assignments | Optional Readings/Videos | |||
| 2/28 |
11 Mini Project Slides for Today | ||||
| 3/2 | No Class - MSCS Capstone Day Attend 2 talks and write a brief summary in #section_03 on Slack! |
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| Work on Assignment 7 (Mini Project) as review for Midterm | |||||
| Week 8 | |||||
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| Date | Activity Topic & Assignments | Optional Readings/Videos | |||
| 3/7 |
Midterm Review Slides for Today | ||||
| 3/9 | Midterm Assessment (in-class) | ||||
| SPRING BREAK - NO CLASS 3/13 - 3/17 | |||||
| Week 9 | |||||
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| Date | Activity Topic & Assignments | Optional Readings/Videos | |||
| 3/21 |
12 Data Import Slides for Today Assignment 8 Due Wednesday, March 29 at 11:59pm |
Readings: Data import, by Wickham and Grolemund Missing data, by Wickham and Grolemund Data intake, by Baumer, Kaplan, and Horton Videos: Using the import wizard, Lisa Lendway |
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| 3/23 |
13 EDA Slides for Today Assignment 8 Due Wednesday, March 29 at 11:59pm |
Readings: Exploratory Data Analysis, by Wickham and Grolemund Exploratory Data Analysis Checklist, by Peng |
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| Finish Assignment 8 (Due 3/29) | |||||
| Week 10 | |||||
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| Date | Activity Topic & Assignments | Optional Readings/Videos | |||
| 3/28 |
Deep Dive in Project Ideas! Slides for Today |
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| 3/30 |
14 Regular Expressions Slides for Today Assignment 9 Due Wednesday, April 5 at 11:59pm |
Reading: Strings, by Wickham and 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 |
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| Finish Assignment 9 (Due 4/5) | |||||
| Week 11 | |||||
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| Date | Activity Topic & Assignments | Optional Readings/Videos | |||
| 4/4 |
Project Narrow Focus Slides for Today |
If you would like to use Github for collaboration on the project, here are some resources github video tutorial, Lisa Lendway Instructions that accompany the video tutorial above Happy Git with R by Jenny Bryan Other Resources: JSON: A Non-Programmer's Introduction to JSON Chp 15 and 16, by Baumer, Kaplan, Horton Text Mining with R, by Julia Silge and David Robinson |
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| 4/6 |
Written Communication: Crafting Sentences, One Number Story Slides for Today | ||||
| Work on Project Data + One Number Story (draft due 4/13) | |||||
| Week 12 | |||||
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| Date | Activity Topic & Assignments | Optional Readings/Videos | |||
| 4/11 |
Oral Communication Slides for Today | ||||
| 4/13 |
Written Communication: Peer Review Slides for Today One Number Story draft due today! | ||||
| Work on Project Visuals (present on 4/18) and Final Draft of One Number Story (due 4/19) | |||||
| Week 13 | |||||
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| Date | Activity Topic & Assignments | Optional Readings/Videos | |||
| 4/18 |
Present Data Vizualization & Critique Slides for Today Come prepared to present a Visual! | ||||
| 4/20 |
Project Planning Slides for Today | ||||
| Work on Project. | |||||
| Week 14 | |||||
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| Date | Activity Topic & Assignments | Optional Readings/Videos | |||
| 4/25 |
Storyboarding Slides for Today |
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| 4/27 |
Project Progress Reports Slides for Today |
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| Final Project Presentations on May 6 1:30-3:30pm. | |||||