Week 3

Color, Themes & Annotations

Important

Lab 1 (Plotting) due by 11:59 p.m. on Monday, September 14.

We make our plots readable and beautiful: color schemes, themes, annotations, and interactivity.

Readings

📖 Healy, ch. 8: Refine Your Plots
📖 Healy, ch. 5: Graph Tables, Add Labels, Make Notes
📖 Lipset, “Some Social Requisites of Democracy”
📖 r4ds, 12.4
📖 r4ds, 12.3 & 12.5

Videos

🖥️ Color schemes
🖥️ Themes
🖥️ Annotations
🖥️ Interactivity

Assignments

🧪 Lab 1: Plotting
📘 Weekly quiz, in class