Outline
Data Visualization and Exploration (STAT 4413/5413, Spring 2025)
Important dates
1/17 “No-grade” Drop deadline
4/11 Withdrawal deadline
Overview
A typical class day should feature a mix of introductory remarks, individual, pair, or small group activities, programming, and discussion, with at least one short break.
This calendar will be maintained and specific activities (assignments and dates) will be added as we go.
Weeks 2-7 are motivated by exploratory data analysis with the goal of producing “most of the way there” data visualizations. In weeks 8 and 9, we will “polish” or extend many of the graphs made to date towards more “finished” products.
Annotation
The links below are organized as follows,
- “slides” links to class slides (web format only)
- “work” links to a zip file containing followup work from class (i.e., “homework”)
- “class” links to a zip file containing template notes for class
- “post” links to a zip file containing my notes from class
Other special categories will be indicated as necessary. Due to their general importance, class notes and work are listed separately in the top menu.
Tentative outline
| Week | Date | Topic | Slides, Links, References |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1/14 | Introduction, Principles, Examples (good and bad) | slides, work |
| 2 | 1/21 | Base R (scatter and line plots, mostly) | slides, class, post, work |
| 3 | 1/28 | Base R (axes, boxplots, and histograms) | slides, class, post, |
| 4 | 2/4 | Base R (histograms, densities, and tables) | slides, class, post |
| 5 | 2/11 | Data-wrangling and groupwork | slides, class, post, work |
| 6 | 2/18 | We didn’t have class.1 | Snow day |
| 7 | 2/25 | ggplot (basic ideas and various plots, reprise) | slides, class, post |
| 8 | 3/4 | ggplot (annotation, reprise) | slides, class, post |
| 9 | 3/11 | Reflections, extensions to base R and ggplot | slides, class, post |
| 10 | 3/18 | Spring Break | |
| 11 | 3/25 | Maps I | slides, class, post, work, mid-semester |
| 12 | 4/1 | Work Day / Review Assignment | see “work, mid-semester” link above |
| 13 | 4/8 | Melton Gallery visit | 6:00pm-7:00pm, slides, gallery, links, gallery work, gallery visit |
| Normal class (Maps II) | 7:20pm-8:45pm, slides, buddy | ||
| 14 | 4/15 | Dashboards (Shiny / Observable JS) | slides, dashboards, class |
| 15 | 4/22 | Dashboards II | slides, deployment |
| 16 | 4/29 | Summary / Special Topics | slides, finale |
| Finals | 5/6 (5:30-7:20 pm) | final project |
Footnotes
You have no explicit obligations here. We will squish some things together and make it all fit within the confines of the time we have.↩︎