Schedule

All assignments are due by 11:59pm on the due date.

Week Date Quiz Class Weekly HW Mini Projects Final Projects
1 Aug 27 Getting Started
Class orientation; workflow; Quarto; importing data; data wrangling & plotting refresher		 HW 1
Due: Sep 01
2 Sep 03 Tidy Data
Tidy data; reshaping data; data provenance; writing a research question		 HW 2
Due: Sep 08
3 Sep 10 Cleaning Data
Joins; changing data types; dealing with messy Excel files		 Work on Proposals and
Mini Project 1!		 MP1: Data Cleaning
Due: Sep 23		 Proposal
Due: Sep 21
4 Sep 17 Project Workshops - no class
Team meetings to discuss project proposals		 HW 3
Due: Sep 22
5 Sep 24 Quiz 1:
Weeks 1 - 2		 Exploring Data
Data types & scales; centrality & variability; correlation		 HW 4
Due: Sep 29
6 Oct 01 Visualizing Information
Psychology of graphical perception; preattentive attributes; ugly, bad, & wrong charts; chart design best practices		 HW 5
Due: Oct 06		 MP2: Exploring Data
Due: Oct 14
7 Oct 08 Quiz 2:
Week 5		 Factors, Amounts, & Proportions
Manipulating factors; plotting amounts with bars, dots, and lollipops; parts of whole		 HW 6
Due: Oct 13
8 Oct 15 Comparisons
Facets; reference lines; dumbbells; slopes; distributions		 HW 7
Due: Oct 20		 Progress Report
Due: Oct 26
9 Oct 22 Quiz 3:
Weeks 7 - 8		 Trends
Line charts; heat maps; animation		 HW 8
Due: Oct 27
10 Oct 29 Polishing Charts
Colors; annotations; scales; themes; multi-panel figures		 HW 9
Due: Nov 03		 MP3: Re-design
Due: Nov 11
11 Nov 05 Quiz 4:
Weeks 9 - 10		 Maps
Maps in ggplot; mapping data to maps; projections		 HW 10
Due: Nov 10
12 Nov 12 Quiz 5:
Weeks 6 - 12		 Interactivity
Plotly; interactive tables; shiny apps		 HW 11
Due: Nov 17
13 Nov 19 Project Workshops - no class
Team meetings to discuss progress towards final analyses		 HW 12
Due: Dec 01		 Final Report
Due: Dec 07
14 Nov 26 Thanksgiving - no class
15 Dec 03 Story Telling
Telling stories; slide design; giving a talk		 Presentation
Due: Dec 09
16 Dec 10 Final Presentations
In-class presentation showcase w/Q&A
Final Interviews will be held virtually December 09-11 (sign up here)