INFO 526: Data Analysis & Visualization

Dr. Greg Chism

This page contains an outline of the topics, content, and assignments for the semester. Note that this schedule will be updated as the semester progresses and the timeline of topics and assignments might be updated throughout the semester.

Week Date Topic Prepare Due
1 Mon, Aug 26 Lec 0

Welcome + Introducing your Toolkit

πŸ“š socviz - Chp 1
πŸŽ₯ Getting Started with Quarto
πŸŽ₯ Git + GitHub in RStudio


Wed, Aug 28 Lec 1

Deep dive into ggplot2 layers I

πŸ“š ggplot2-book - Chp 13
πŸ“š ggplot2-book - Chp 14
πŸ“š ggplot2-book - Chp 15


2 Mon, Sep 2 No Class

Labor Day


πŸ“ HW 0

Wed, Sep 4 Lec 2

Deep dive into ggplot2 layers II

πŸ“š ggplot2-book - Chp 16
πŸ“š ggplot2-book - Chp 17

βœ… RQ 1

3 Mon, Sep 9 Lec 3

Data wrangling I

πŸ“š R4DS - Chp 6

πŸ“ HW 1

Wed, Sep 11 Peer review

Project I Peer Review


πŸ“‘ Project 1 proposals for peer review

4 Mon, Sep 16 Lec 4

Data wrangling II

πŸ“š R4DS - Chp 19

πŸ“‘ Project 1 proposals for instructor review

Wed, Sep 18 Lec 5

Visualizing densities I

πŸ“š ggplot2-book - Chp 5


5 Mon, Sep 23 Lec 6

Visualizing densities II

πŸ“š ISLR - Chp 13.1 - 13.4


Wed, Sep 25 Lec 7

Data wrangling III

πŸ“š R4DS - Chp 20

βœ… RQ 2

6 Mon, Sep 30 Lec 8

Visualizing time series data I

πŸ“š fdv - Chp 13


Wed, Oct 2 Lec 9

Visualizing time series data II

πŸ“š fdv - Chp 14

πŸ“ HW 2

7 Mon, Oct 7 Lec 10

Themes + Axes + Annotation

πŸŽ₯ Reporting and visualising the pandemic by John Burn-Murdoch
πŸŽ₯ Always look on the bright side of plots by Kara Woo


Wed, Oct 9 Lec 11

Presentation ready plots

πŸ“š fdv - Chp 29

βœ… RQ 3

8 Mon, Oct 14 Lec 12

Data visualization accessibility

πŸ“ƒ The Right Tools for the Job by Frank Elavsky
πŸ“ƒ Writing Alt Text to Communicate the Meaning in Data Visualizations by Elizabeth Hare
πŸ“š fdv - Chp 19
πŸ“š fdv - Chp 4


Wed, Oct 16 Midterm

Project 1 presentations


πŸ“‘ Project 1

9 Mon, Oct 21 Lec 13

Du Bois visualizations Final Project Preview

πŸ“ƒ Six part series on W.E.B. Du Bois’ legacy


Wed, Oct 23 Lec 14

Visualizing Likert data

πŸ“š fdv - Chp 10
πŸ“š fdv - Chp 11
πŸ“ƒ The case against diverging stacked bars
πŸ“ƒ On Likert Scales In R


10 Mon, Oct 28 Lec 15

Visualizing Uncertainty

πŸ“š fdv - Chp 16
πŸ“ƒ Uncertainty Visualization

πŸ“ HW 3

Wed, Oct 30 Lec 16

Visualizing geospatial data I

πŸ“š fdv - Chp 15

βœ… RQ 4

11 Mon, Nov 4 Lec 17

Visualizing geospatial data II

πŸ“ƒ sf vgnette 1 + πŸ“ƒ sf vgnette 2 +
πŸ“ƒ sf vgnette 3 + πŸ“ƒ sf vgnette 4 +
πŸ“ƒ sf vgnette 5


Wed, Nov 6 Lec 18

Visualizing geospatial data III



12 Mon, Nov 11 No Class

Veterans Day



Wed, Nov 13 Peer Review

Project 2 proposal peer review


πŸ“‘ Project 2 proposals for peer review

13 Mon, Nov 18 Lec 19

Animation

πŸ“ƒ gganimate vignette

πŸ“‘ Project 2 proposals for instructor review

Wed, Nov 20 Lec 20

Interactive visualizations + reporting with Shiny I

πŸ“š ms - Chp 1
πŸ“š ms - Chp 2

πŸ“ HW 4
βœ… RQ 5

14 Mon, Nov 25 Lec 21

Interactive visualizations + reporting with Shiny II

πŸ“š ms - Chp 3
πŸ“š ms - Chp 7


Wed, Nov 27 No Class

Happy Thanksgiving πŸ¦ƒ



15 Mon, Dec 2 Lec 22

Dashboards I

πŸ“ƒ What is a Dashboard
πŸ“ƒ What makes a great Dashboard
πŸ“ƒ Dashboard Design Process
πŸ“ƒ Quarto Dashboards


Wed, Dec 4 Lec 23

Dashboards II

πŸ“ˆ Labor + Delivery Dashboard


16 Mon, Dec 9 Lec 24

Tables

πŸ“ƒ Jon Schwabish - Ten Guidelines for Better Tables
πŸ“ƒ Tom Mock - 10+ Guidelines for Better Tables in R

πŸ“ HW 5

Wed, Dec 11 Lec 25

Generative art



Finals Fri, Dec 13 Final

Project 2 presentations @ 1:00 - 3:00pm


πŸ“‘ Project 2