Special Topics in Political Science (390-0-20)

Topic

Political Data Visualization

Instructors

Alexander Coppock
2001 Sheridan Road, 3154
Office Hours: By appointment only

Meeting Info

2001 Sheridan GPC 3111: Tues, Thurs 9:30AM - 10:50AM

Overview of class

This course is an introduction to data visualization with a focus on political and social data. Our main textbook will be The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte, a foundational book that explores the history of data visualization and offers a perspective on how graphs should be constructed. We will also learn from other visualization pioneers not included in Tufte's review such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Florence Nightingale. Our secondary textbook will be the ggplot2 book by Hadley Wickham, an indispensable resource for constructing statistical graphs in the programming language R. The main goal of the course will be to learn to communicate both what we know and why we think we know it through excellent data visualization.

Class Materials (Required)

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte

Class Attributes

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