Schedule

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

Title Content Lesson Example Assignment
April 16–April 16
(Session 1) 		Foundations 1: Truth, beauty, and data + R and tidyverse  (submit by 11:59 PM)
April 23–April 23
(Session 2) 		Foundations 2: Graphic design  (submit by 11:59 PM)
April 30–April 30
(Session 3) 		Foundations 3: Mapping data to graphics  (submit by 11:59 PM)

Types of graphics

Title Content Lesson Example Assignment
May 7–May 7
(Session 4) 		Types of graphics 1: Amounts and proportions  (submit by 11:59 PM)
May 14–May 14
(Session 5) 		Types of graphics 2: Visualising uncertainty  (submit by 11:59 PM)
May 21–May 21
(Session 6) 		Types of graphics 3: Relationships  (submit by 11:59 PM)
May 28–May 28
(Session 7) 		Types of graphics 4: Proportions  (submit by 11:59 PM)

Project

Title Content Lesson Example Assignment
June 4–June 4 Coding review and project set-up  (submit by 11:59 PM)
July 9–July 9 Project gallery presentations  (submit by 11:59 PM)

Special graphics

Title Content Lesson Example Assignment
June 11–June 11
(Session 9) 		Special graphics 1: Interactivity  (submit by 11:59 PM)
June 18–June 18
(Session 10) 		Special graphics 2: Maps  (submit by 11:59 PM)
June 25–June 25
(Session 11) 		Special graphics 3: Time  (submit by 11:59 PM)
July 2–July 2
(Session 12) 		Special graphics 4: Text  (submit by 11:59 PM)