Visualizing Social Data
  • Syllabus
  • Schedule
  • Content
  • Examples
  • Assignments

Schedule

Here’s a tentative outline for the semester. It’s subject to change. There are up to three kinds of link each week.

  • Content (): These pages contain links to the readings and other material for each week. Read these before class. Lecture slide decks will also appear on these pages.

  • Example (): These pages contain annotated R code and other supplementary information that you can use as a reference for your assignments and projects. It is also where any impromptu stuff we do in class will end up.

  • Assignment (): These pages contain the instructions for each problem set. The problem set problem set assiged in any given week is due the following Tuesday by 6:00pm. The midterm and final projects are due by 11:59 PM on the day they’re listed.

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I: Core Tools

Topic Content Example Assignment
Week 1 Jan 13 / Jan 13 Orientation
Week 2 Jan 18 / Jan 20 Make Some Graphs in R
Week 3 Jan 25 / Jan 27 Ways of Seeing
Week 4 Feb 1 / Feb 3 How ggplot Thinks
Week 5 Feb 8 / Feb 10 Show the Right Numbers
Week 6 Feb 15 / Feb 17 Expanding your Vocabulary
Midterm Project Due Feb 17 Midterm Project

II: Applications

Topic Content Example Assignment
Week 7 Feb 22 / Feb 24 Counting People
Week 8 Mar 1 / Mar 3 Trends and Time Series
Week 9 Mar 8 / Mar 10 Maps and Spatial Data
Break Mar 15 / Mar 17 Spring Break
Week 10 Mar 22 / Mar 24 Messy and Missing data
Week 11 Mar 29 / Mar 31 Visualizing Social Networks
Week 12 Apr 5 / Apr 7 Animation
Week 13 Apr 12 / Apr 14 Polishing Plots I
Week 14 Apr 19 / Apr 21 Polishing Plots II
Week 15 Apr 26 Social Theory and Social Data

Final Project

Topic Content Example Assignment
Final Project Due Apr 26 Final Project
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