Course Schedule

Topic	Date	Skills	Readings	Reference	Slides	Videos	Assignments
Getting Started	Aug 25	Course overview
	Aug 27	Environment setup	📖		🖥️
Quarto and Markdown	Sep 1	Authoring with Quarto and Markdown	📖	📖	🖥️	🖥️🖥️
	Sep 3	R programming basics			🖥️
Charting With ggplot2	Sep 8	Bar charts & histograms	📖	📖📖	🖥️	🖥️🖥️
	Sep 10	More Visualization Basics	📖	📖	🖥️	🖥️🖥️
Color, Themes & Annotations	Sep 15	Color schemes	📖 📖	📖	🖥️	🖥️
	Sep 17	Themes, annotations & interactivity	📖	📖	🖥️	🖥️🖥️🖥️	🧪
Reading & Reshaping Data	Sep 22	Read data into R		📖	🖥️	🖥️
	Sep 24	Reshape & clean data		📖	🖥️	🖥️🖥️
Importing & Merging Data	Sep 29	Download data from APIs	📖		🖥️	🖥️🖥️
	Oct 1	Merge, group, summarize & arrange		📖 📖	🖥️	🖥️🖥️🖥️	🧪
Choropleth Maps	Oct 6	Map data with choropleth maps	📖		🖥️	🖥️🖥️
	Oct 8	Turn your map into a function	📖	📖	🖥️	🖥️
	Oct 13	No class, fall break		🍁🍂🎃
Interactive Maps	Oct 15	Make a leaflet map (Prof T away)*			🖥️	🖥️🖥️
	Oct 20	Customize your interactive map				🖥️
	Oct 22	Map wrap-up					🧪
Tables	Oct 27	Explore tabular data			🖥️
	Oct 29	Make a gt table & confidence intervals			🖥️
Models & Coefficient Plots	Nov 3	Run models & display regression tables	📖 📖		🖥️	🖥️🖥️
	Nov 5	Coefficient plots (Prof T away)*				🖥️	🧪
Building a Shiny App	Nov 10	App setup & building the UI			🖥️	🖥️🖥️
	Nov 12	Building the server			🖥️	🖥️
Extending Your App	Nov 17	Add inputs & a time-series app	📖		🖥️	🖥️🖥️🖥️
	Nov 19	Shiny modules			🖥️		✍️
	Nov 24	No class, Thanksgiving break		🦃🥧🍂
	Nov 26	No class, Thanksgiving break
Deploying & Sharing / Project Studio	Dec 1	Final project workshop
	Dec 3	Final project workshop
	Dec 8	Lightning talks

* Prof T is traveling on this day. Please follow the modules and videos and we will cover the material in class when he returns.