| Week | Date | Quiz | Class | Weekly HW | Mini Projects | Final Project |
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| 1 | Aug 26 | Getting Started Class orientation; workflow; Quarto; importing data; data wrangling & plotting refresher |
HW 1 Due: Aug 31 |
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| 2 | Sep 02 | Agentic Workflows & GitHub Version control with GitHub Desktop (no command line); setting up Claude Code in Positron; your first AI-assisted data import |
HW 2 Due: Sep 08 |
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| 3 | Sep 09 | Quiz 1: Weeks 1 - 2 |
Tidy Data Tidy data; reshaping data; data provenance; writing a research question |
Work on Proposals! | Proposal Due: Sep 20 |
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| 4 | Sep 16 | Team Proposal Workshops - no class One-on-one team meetings w/Prof. Helveston to scope semester project |
HW 3 Due: Sep 21 |
MP1: Clean & Verify Due: Oct 04 |
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| 5 | Sep 23 | Joins & Data Cleaning Joins; changing data types; dealing with messy Excel files |
HW 4 Due: Sep 28 |
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| 6 | Sep 30 | Quiz 2: Weeks 3 - 5 |
Exploring Data Data types & scales; centrality & variability; distributions; correlation |
HW 5 Due: Oct 05 |
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| 7 | Oct 07 | Visualizing Information Psychology of graphical perception; preattentive attributes; ugly, bad, & wrong charts; chart design best practices |
HW 6 Due: Oct 12 |
MP2: Explore & Interrogate Due: Oct 25 |
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| 8 | Oct 14 | Quiz 3: Weeks 6 - 7 |
Factors, Amounts, & Proportions Manipulating factors; plotting amounts with bars, dots, and lollipops; parts of whole |
HW 7 Due: Oct 19 |
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| 9 | Oct 21 | Comparisons Facets; reference lines; dumbbells; slopes; distributions |
HW 8 Due: Oct 26 |
Initial Report Due: Nov 01 |
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| 10 | Oct 28 | Quiz 4: Weeks 8 - 9 |
Trends Line charts; heat maps; animation |
HW 9 Due: Nov 02 |
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| 11 | Nov 04 | Polishing Charts Colors; annotations; scales; themes; multi-panel figures |
HW 10 Due: Nov 09 |
MP3: Re-design Due: Nov 22 |
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| 12 | Nov 11 | Quiz 5: Weeks 10 - 11 |
Maps Maps in ggplot; mapping data to maps; projections |
HW 11 Due: Nov 16 |
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| 13 | Nov 18 | Interactivity Iteractive charts & tables; Intro to Shiny; D3 inside React; building & deploying interactive products |
HW 12 Due: Nov 30 |
Final Report Due: Dec 06 |
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| 14 | Nov 25 | Thanksgiving - no class |
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| 15 | Dec 02 | Story Telling & Publishing Telling stories; slide design; giving a talk; publishing your report as a Quarto site on GitHub Pages |
Presentation Due: Dec 08 |
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| 16 | Dec 09 | Final Presentations In-class presentation showcase w/Q&A |
Schedule
All assignments are due by 11:59pm on the due date.