MADS Data Visualization 36-613

This is the companion website for MADS Data Visualization course 36-613. While all of the assignments will be posted on Canvas, this website provides an alternative way to access lecture materials and additional demo files (see the see side-bar).

Lectures are on Mondays and Wednesdays from 9:30 - 10:50 AM ET, located in WEH 4709.

Office hours schedule:

Name	Office hours	Location
Prof Yurko	M/W 11 AM - 12 PM	Baker Hall 132D
Anna Rosengart	Tuesday 1 - 2 PM	Zoom

There are no required textbooks for this course, but the following are useful free resources that I will sometimes refer to as recommended reading:

• R for Data Science

• Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction

• Fundamentals of Data Visualization

• ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis

• Mastering Shiny

And the following are interesting data visualization and infographics websites:

• FlowingData

• History of Data Visualization

• Alberto Cairo’s substack

• Friends Don’t Let Friends Make Bad Graphs