3 Schedule

The list of topics is tentative and the pacing is subject to change depending on how much we cover each day. We will aim to stick to the due dates outlined below. If a deadline needs to change due to unforeseen circumstances, it will be push until a later date, never pulled up to an earlier date.

Week	Date	Topic	Readings	Due
1	Wed, Aug 25	Welcome
	Fri, Aug 27	Grammar of Graphics	Wickham et al., Chp 13	Survey: Getting to know you
2	Mon, Aug 30	Lab: Meet the toolkit
	Wed, Sep 1	Looking at data	Healy, Chp 1	RQ 1
	Fri, Sep 3	Deep dive: geoms	Wickham et al., Chp 14
3	Mon, Sep 6	Lab: Work on HW
	Wed, Sep 8	Deep dive: stats + scales + guides	Wickham et al., Chp 15	HW 1
	Fri, Sep 10	Data wrangling I	Wickham and Grolemund, Chp 12 + Chp 13
4	Mon, Sep 13	Lab: Work on Project
	Wed, Sep 15	Data wrangling II	Wickham et al., Chp 16	RQ 2
	Fri, Sep 17	Deep dive: coordinate systems + faceting + themes	Wickham et al., Chp 17 + Chp 18
5	Mon, Sep 20	Lab: Project 1 peer review
	Wed, Sep 22	Guest lecture by Dr. Claus Wilke: Color scales + Color spaces and color-vision deficiency	Wilke Chp 4 + Chp 19	HW 2
	Fri, Sep 24	Deep dive: Axes and annotation	Watch: Reporting and visualising the pandemic by John Burn-Murdoch
6	Mon, Sep 27	Work on Project
	Wed, Sep 29	Presentation ready plots	Wilke Chp 29
	Fri, Oct 1	Project 1 presentation		Project 1
7	Mon, Oct 4	No lab: Fall break
	Wed, Oct 6	Visualizing time series data	Wilke Chp 13 + Chp 14	RQ 3
	Fri, Oct 8	Visualizing geospatial data I	Wilke Chp 15
8	Mon, Oct 11	Lab: Work on HW 3
	Wed, Oct 13	Visualizing geospatial data II		HW 3
	Fri, Oct 15	Visualizing text and network data	Wickham et al., Chp 7
9	Mon, Oct 18	Lab: Work on Project 2
	Wed, Oct 20	Guest lecture by Kieran Healy: Facets + compounding	Wickham et al., Chp 9
	Fri, Oct 22	Animation		RQ 4
10	Mon, Oct 25	Lab: Work on Project 2 and/or HW 4
	Wed, Oct 27	Visualizing uncertainty	Wilke Chp 16	HW 4
	Fri, Oct 29	Visual inference	Talk: Di Cook - To the Tidyverse and Beyond
11	Mon, Nov 1	Lab: Work on Project 2
	Wed, Nov 3	Tables	Paper: Jon Schwabish - Ten Guidelines for Better Tables + Blog post: Tom Mock - 10+ Guidelines for Better Tables in R	RQ 5
	Fri, Nov 5	Interactive reporting	Wickham Chp 1 + Chp 2	Project 2 proposal
12	Mon, Nov 8	Lab: Project 2 peer review
	Wed, Nov 10	Interactive visualization	Wickham Chp 3 + Chp 7	HW 5
	Fri, Nov 12	Accessibility	Amy Cesal - Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization	Project 2 re-proposal
13	Mon, Nov 15	Lab: Work on Project 2
	Wed, Nov 17	Guest lecture by Ijeamaka Anyene: Computational art	Video: Ijeamaka Anyene - aRt + ggplot: exploring radial visualizations
	Fri, Nov 19	Generative art	Blog post: Danielle Navarro - Unpredictable paintings
14	Mon, Nov 22	Lab: Work on Project 2
	Wed, Nov 24	No class: Thanksgiving		RQ 6
	Fri, Nov 26	No class: Thanksgiving
15	Mon, Nov 29	Lab: Work on Project 2		HW 6
	Wed, Dec 1	Wrap up
	Fri, Dec 3	Project 2 presentation		Project 2

Optional. This is an opportunity to improve your score on the Project 2 proposal by integrating feedback from the first round by this deadline. If you’re happy with your Project 2 proposal score, you do not need to submit anything for this assignment.

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2 Teaching team

4 Useful links