Grab bag, Catch up & Review

Week 10

Wednesday March 11th, 2026

A cartoon monster student in a backpack looks on at stunning gems labeled 'Touchstones of Intuition', which have the text 'You know some stuff' written on sequential crystals.

I hope you all feel this way after another quarter of classes under your belts! Artwork by Allison Horst.

Pre-class Prep

A. Install required packages

library(waffle) # for making waffle (square pie) charts in R
library(ggbump) # a geom for creating bump charts

B. Download .qmd templates

Download all necessary templates (links in the table below) and save them to a EDS-240-data-viz-examples/week10/ folder. No need to review any of the code ahead of class – we’ll be walking through it all together.

Lecture Materials

Lecture slides Code-along template Code-along key
Lecture 10.1: misc. chart types 10.1 template 10.1 key
Lecture 10.2: quarter recap NA NA

Pre-discussion Prep

A. Prepare your final presentation

We’ll use our last discussion section to give and receive feedback on final presentation plans. To prepare:

  1. Review the requirements for your final presentation, which are detailed in HW #4, and consider your responses to each of them

  2. Prepare a Google slide deck (or other presentation format, though it must be easily shareable with Sam, so that she can have it open and ready on her computer on the day of final presentations) with your visualization(s). You’re welcome to present just your final data viz deliverable (e.g. infographic) on it’s own (i.e. without a slide deck), though you should still be prepared to talk through the required points

  3. Practice your talk! You don’t need to have a perfectly polished draft presentation, but the closer you get it to your ideal version, the better. You’ll be practicing your talk in front of 1-2 of your peers during section.

Discussion Materials

Discussion Slides Exercise instructions Exercise solutions
D10 slides: critiquing flash talks NA NA
Assignment Type Assignment Title Date Assigned Date Due
FPM Final Project Milestone #4 Wed 02/25/2026 Sun 03/08/2026, 11:59pm PT
SR End-of-course reflection (SR #3) Wed 03/11/2026 Sun 03/13/2026, 11:59pm PT
FPM Final Project Milestone #5 Wed 03/11/2026 Sun 03/19/2026, 11:59pm PT