Schedule

Calendar Date Week Day Module Content Homework Assignment Knowledge Assessment
Due By First Class Installation & Setup
27-Aug T Introduction
29-Aug R Project Management (Parts 1 and 2)
03-Sept T Graphical Perception
05-Sept R Data Frame Manipulation and Wrangling
10-Sept T Data Subsets and Summaries
12-Sept R Considerations in Data Visualization
17-Sept T Designing Perceptually Efficient Visualizations HW 01 KA 1
19-Sept R The Grammar of Graphics
24-Sept T Visualizing Associations HW 02
26-Sept R Spatial Position and Adjustment
01-Oct T Visualizing Amounts HW 03 KA 2
03-Oct R Color Scales and Palettes
08-Oct T Histograms and Density Plots HW 04
10-Oct R Coordinates, Axes and Position Scales
15-Oct T Fall Break (no class)
17-Oct R Statistical Transformations (Data as-is Versus Summaries)
22-Oct T More Data Wrangling HW 05 KA 3
24-Oct R Mid-Term Presentation
29-Oct T Visualizing More Distributions HW 06
31-Oct R Visualizing Uncertainty
NLT
31-Oct
Mid-Term Presentation to Liaison (By End of Day)
05-Nov T Legends and Arrangement HW 07 KA 4
07-Nov R Visualizing Trends
12-Nov T Multi-Panel Plots: Faceting and Layers HW 08
14-Nov R Annotation and Text
19-Nov T Attentional Control and Tradeoffs HW 09 KA 5
21-Nov R Titles Captions & Tables
26-Nov T [online] Catch-Up, Figure Design (Themes), or Team Project Preparation HW 10
28-Nov R Thanksgiving Break (no class)
03-Dec T Catch-Up or Team Project Preparation
05-Dec R In-Class Presentation (Last day of Class)
NLT
13-Dec
Fri Finals Week: Final Push to Repo/Written Report (By Noon) MU
NLT
13-Dec
Fri Final Presentation to Liaison (By End of Day) - Do Not Schedule your departure prior to presenting to your project’s organization, otherwise expect a grade deduction. The semester schedule and final-exam schedule were available during registration time.
Note(s): Assessments will take place during the first 10 minutes of class time. If you are late and cannot finish in the time allotted, see below.
There will be 1 optional make-up/replacement assessment (MU) offered which can replace a missed assessment or homework or unsatisfactory assessment or homework. The percentage value (not point value) will be applied to items of unequal point value.
NLT = No Later Than