Week 5 - Communicating data science results effectively
Tips for effective data visualization, communication of results, and collaboration 💬
Dan Mills, Amazon Region with borders (with the estimated number of nations and tribes at European contact marked in black, and the estimated current number marked in colors), 2020, acrylic on collage laid down on board, 55 x 46 inches
Tasks
- Watch the videos
- Complete the readings
- Complete the assignments
- Especially work on the project proposal
Videos
You can access the course videos on YouTube. You can also find a playlists for all course videos on YouTube here.
No. |
Title |
YouTube |
Slides |
Length |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Tips for effective data visualization | 37:35 | |||
| 02 | Scientific studies and confounding | 17:15 | |||
| 03 | Simpson’s paradox | 15:29 | |||
| 04 | Doing data science | 18:54 |
Class Activities
Activity |
Title |
Date |
|---|---|---|
| Project | Xaringan Basics and Beyond | Tue, 15 Feb |
| Field Trip | Dan Mill’s Studio | Thu, 17 Feb |
Assignments
Assignment |
Title |
Due |
|---|---|---|
| Due this week | ||
| Project | Team contract | Tue, 15 Feb, 23:59 EST |
| HW 04 | Majors | Wed, 23 Feb, 23:59 EST |
| Project | Proposal | Mon, 28 Feb, 23:59 EST |
| Q 04 | Coding style | Sun, 20 Feb, 23:59 EST |
| Due in two weeks | ||
| R 02 | Field Trip Reflection | Tue, 1 Mar, 23:59 EST |
| HW 05 | Lego Sales | Fri, 4 Mar, 23:59 EST |
| Q 05 | Scrape + iterate | Sun, 6 Mar, 23:59 EST |
If you’re having difficulty accessing your HW or Lab repo, see troubleshooting advice here.
Readings
| 📖 | R4DS::Chp 7 - Exploratory data analysis | Required |
| 📖 | IMS::Sec 6.1 - Case study: Effective communication of exploratory results | Required |
| 📖 | IMS::Sec 2.1 Study design | Required |
| 📖 | IMS::Sec 2.2 - Experiments | Required |
| 📖 | Tidyverse style guide::Part 1 - Analyses (Chp 1-5) | Optional |
Field Trip!!
We will be going to visit Dan Mills studio in Lewiston. Dan is director of the Bates Museum of Art and a lecturer in the Humanities.
Dan makes paintings and works on paper that visualize observations about current and historic events that impact our time. He uses the conceptual space of maps, combined with paint, collage, drawing, and printmaking to explore data in highly abstracted representations that vary in size from the diminutive dimensions of an atlas page to paintings over twelve feet wide.
Directions and travel plan to studio coming soon!
Interactive R tutorials
The following are interactive R tutorials, designed to give you more practice with R. These are optional, but they will give you some more hands-on experience with a topic. If you’re struggling with any of the topics covered this week, we strongly recommend you work through the interactive tutorials.
| Lego sales | Related to Homework 5 |
