Data Visualization (Spring 2025 PMAP 8551/4551) News

Week 2 FAQs

Making cleaner, nicer Quarto documents

Week 1 tips and FAQs

Getting help more efficiently

As I mention throughout the syllabus and in the instructions for every assignment, I want you to succeed in this class! The best way to do that is to get help when you’re…

Zeroes and ✓−s in the gradebook

Pre-class FAQs

Thanks to everyone who has filled out the pre-class welcome survey (see the link in iCollege)! I’m excited to get to know you all more this semester!

Copy, paste, and tweak

Learning programming is a little different from learning other skills or materials. In other classes you’ve taken, you read articles or textbooks, take notes on them, talk…

Building community

The most common question from the pre-class survey was some variation of this:

The 30-minute rule and how to ask for help

When working through the examples or exercises, you will get stuck. It’s inevitable.

First day of class!

Announcements and updates

Haha one last thing for real!

Important R stuff

From reading the syllabus you’ll notice that we’re using R in this class. R is free (!!), and highly sought after by employers, but it has a little bit of an initial…

Welcome to class!

Hello everyone!