Mapping data to graphics

Materials for class on Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Contents

Slides

Download the slides from today’s lecture.

Extra-dimensional aesthetics

• Make your own animated plots with gganimate
• Video of simulated Hurricane Florence storm surge
• The Wall Street Journal’s audio-based visualization of Hamilton’s internal rhymes

Guessing the identity of the Trump resistance op-ed writer with R

• David Robinson’s approach
• Mike Kearney’s approach: his code and his short article

Workhouses and star movies

Download this zip file, extract it, and open the file named week3.Rproj:

• week3.zip

Clearest and muddiest things

Go to this form and answer these two questions:

1. What was the muddiest thing from class today? What are you still wondering about?
2. What was the clearest thing from class today? What was the most exciting thing you learned?

I’ll compile the questions and send out answers after class.