Wednesday, January 21: Collection of Data from the classroom.
Our Goal: To Understand and Use Data to Clearly show facts, tell stories, and explain the world.
Ideas: Qualitative vs. Quantitative Data. Representation of data.
Links:
Good representation or Bad representation?
Thursday, January 22: Histogram vs. Bar Chart, and what makes a good plot
Goal: To build a histogram and bar chart and know the difference. To describe the difference between the two.
Possible Goal: To enter data into r two different ways: scan() and data1=c(stuff)
Ideas: scale, lying with the data, building a graph.
Activity: creating histograms and bar charts of ourselves.
Links: bar charts. histograms. note: the bar chart offered here is pretty terrible in terms of graphical design.
Friday, January 23: Data Set Challenge #1.
Using the data set given to you, you have 30 minutes to create the best/most interesting/most useful visual you can.
Groups are randomly assigned (see r output at start of class)
Link: data. link will not be ready until the start of class.
Votes for Best occurs after 30 minutes of class time.
Visual Data Set Award Shall Be Given