Tentative Schedule for Summer Semester Date Topic Learning Objective Reading and Assignments Week 1 Class Introduction Review of the Course. Created and expectations. Review of Syllabus. Class Thursday May 10 introductions by both Assignment Post Card Viz – Monday May 14 instructor and the students. Week 2 Data and Stats Quick review of data, Readings Chapter 1, 2 – database design and how we Thursday May 17 approach a dataset we have Assignment Flip Chart Viz – Monday May 21 never seen before. Quick review of statistics. Week 3 Simple Typology for Discussion of the four Readings Chapter 3 – Chart Making (the quadrants of visualization Thursday May 24 four quadrant described by Berinato. Assignment Due Post Card Viz – Monday June 4 discussion) Week 4 EDA Exploratory Data Analysis. Readings Selected by Instructor – Better understanding of and loaded into Carmen and Thursday May 31 Scatter Plots, Box/Whisker, Chapter 4 in text. Monday June 11 Histogram, Heat Maps. Assignment Due Flip Viz – Week 5 Excel Dashboards Discussion of Excel tools Readings Chapter 5 – available. In class work with Thursday June 7 Slicer, Timeline and the Data Assignment Chicago Crime Data – Monday June 18 Analytics section of Excel. Set (this assignment will be worked on and presented in class) Week 6 Tableau Introduction to Tableau. Readings Chapter 6 – Thursday June 14 Each student should have Assignment Injury Data Set – Monday June 25 Tableau loaded on their device by this week. Week 7 Three Steps to More It’s not enough to make a Readings -- Chapter 7 Persuasive Charts chart that’s accurate, you Thursday June 21 need to make a chart that is Assignment Yelp Data Set – Monday July 2 more persuasive.
Tentative Schedule for Summer Semester Date Topic Learning Objective Reading and Assignments Week 1 Thursday May 10 Monday May 14 Class Introduction and expectations. Review of the Course. Review of Syllabus. Class introductions by both instructor and the students. Created Assignment – Post Card Viz Week 2 Thursday May 17 Monday May 21 Data and Stats Quick review of data, database design and how we approach a dataset we have never seen before. Quick review of statistics. Readings – Chapter 1, 2 Assignment – Flip Chart Viz Week 3 Thursday May 24 Monday June 4 Simple Typology for Chart Making (the four quadrant discussion) Discussion of the four quadrants of visualization described by Berinato. Readings – Chapter 3 Assignment Due – Post Card Viz Week 4 Thursday May 31 Monday June 11 EDA Exploratory Data Analysis. Better understanding of Scatter Plots, Box/Whisker, Histogram, Heat Maps. Readings – Selected by Instructor and loaded into Carmen and Chapter 4 in text. Assignment Due – Flip Viz Week 5 Thursday June 7 Monday June 18 Excel Dashboards Discussion of Excel tools available. In class work with Slicer, Timeline and the Data Analytics section of Excel. Readings – Chapter 5 Assignment – Chicago Crime Data Set (this assignment will be worked on and presented in class) Week 6 Thursday June 14 Monday June 25 Tableau Introduction to Tableau. Each student should have Tableau loaded on their device by this week. Readings – Chapter 6 Assignment – Injury Data Set Week 7 Thursday June 21 Monday July 2 Three Steps to More Persuasive Charts It’s not enough to make a chart that’s accurate, you need to make a chart that is more persuasive. Readings -- Chapter 7 Assignment – Yelp Data Set
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