Data Visualization (Fall 2025 PMAP 8551/4551) News

Week 6 FAQs

This can be frustrating! You’ll type some code, thinking that it’s what you need to write to make a plot, and then nothing works.

Week 5 FAQs

Yep. Leland Wilkinson—the guy who invented the idea of the grammar of graphics and wrote the literal The Grammar of Graphics book—was actually a semi-cofounder of Tableau.…

Week 4 FAQs

Week 3 FAQs

Week 2 FAQs

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…

Making cleaner, nicer Quarto documents

Week 1 tips and FAQs

How to ask for help

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

First day of class!

Building community on Discord

The most common question I get from students before the class is this:

Announcements and updates

Over the course of the semester, I’ll be sending you lots of updates and announcements and FAQs.

Welcome to class!

Hello everyone!

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…