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.

Subscribe to the class calendar

You can subscribe to this calendar URL in Outlook, Google Calendar, or Apple Calendar:

		Topic
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

		Topic
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

		Topic	Content	Example	Assignment
Final Project	Due Apr 26	Final Project