Here’s your roadmap for the semester!
Content (): This page contains the readings, slides, and recorded lectures for the topic. Read and watch these first.
Lesson (): This page contains an interactive lesson that teaches you the principles and code you need to know. Go through these after doing the content.
Example (): This page contains fully annotated R code that you can use as a reference for creating your own visualizations. This is only a reference page—you don’t have to necessarily do anything here. Each section also contains videos of me live coding the examples so you can see what it looks like to work with R in real time. This page will be very helpful as you work on your assignments.
Assignment (): This page contains the instructions for either the session exercise (1–3 brief tasks), or for the two mini projects and final project. Assignments are due by 11:59 PM on the Monday after their corresponding sessions. That’s confusing in sentence form—see the schedule table below to see how it works.
tl;dr: You should follow this general process for each session:
- Do everything on the content page ()
- Work through the lesson page ()
- Complete the assignment () while referencing the example ()
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Foundations
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June 5–June 9
(Session 1)
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Truth, beauty, and data + R and tidyverse
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June 5–June 9
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Graphic design
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June 12
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Assignments for sessions 1 and 2 due (submit by 11:59 PM)
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June 12–June 16
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Mapping data to graphics
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Core types of graphics
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June 12–June 16
(Session 4)
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Amounts and proportions
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June 20
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Assignments for sessions 3 and 4 due (submit by 11:59 PM)
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June 19–June 23
(Session 5)
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Themes
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June 19–June 23
(Session 6)
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Uncertainty
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June 26
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Assignments for sessions 5 and 6 due (submit by 11:59 PM)
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June 26–June 30
(Session 7)
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Relationships
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June 26–June 30
(Session 8)
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Comparisons
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July 3
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Assignments for sessions 7 and 8 due (submit by 11:59 PM)
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July 3
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Mini project 1 due (submit by 11:59 PM)
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Special applications
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July 3–July 7
(Session 9)
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Annotations
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July 3–July 7
(Session 10)
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Interactivity
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July 10
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Assignments for sessions 9 and 10 due (submit by 11:59 PM)
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July 10–July 14
(Session 11)
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Time
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July 10–July 14
(Session 12)
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Space
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July 17
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Assignments for sessions 11 and 12 due (submit by 11:59 PM)
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July 17
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Mini project 2 due (submit by 11:59 PM)
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July 17–July 21
(Session 13)
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Text
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July 17–July 21
(Session 14)
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Enhancing graphics
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July 24
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Assignments for sessions 13 and 14 due (submit by 11:59 PM)
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Conclusions
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July 24–July 25
(Session 15)
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Truth, beauty, and data revisited
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July 25
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Assignment for session 15 due (submit by 11:59 PM)
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July 30
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Final project due (submit by 11:59 PM)
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