Visual Analytics for Policy and Management

1. Software Installation

Every program below will offer you a version according to your computer (MacOS/Windows/Linux)'s operating system. Choose the right one:

PYTHON: You need to install the version from Continuum Analytics (ANACONDA), which is available at https://www.continuum.io/downloads
R: You need to install this before the next program. Geit it at https://cran.r-project.org/
RStudio: After installing R, you need to install this program from https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/
LATEX: We will play with LATEX, you can find it at https://www.latex-project.org/get/.
ZOTERO: Get an account at https://www.zotero.org, and then download the desktop app.
GITHUB: Get an account at https://github.com/, and then download the desktop app.

There is no required book for the course. You can supplement some classes with:

Magallanes, José Manuel (2017). Introduction to Data Science for Social and Policy Research. Cambridge University Press.

I will provide online material for reading before class.

#	Week		TOPIC	READING
1	07/Jan	11/Jan	Organizing a reproducible environment	Chapters: 2, 3, and 7.
2	14/Jan	25/Jan	Visualizing Tabular Data Univariate case in R	EDA
3	28/Jan	8/Feb	Visualizing Tabular Data: Bivariate case in R	EDA
4	11/Feb	01/Mar	Visualizing Tabular Data: Multivariate case in R	* Clustering * Principal Components * MDS * Regression
5	18/Feb	22/Feb	Final Project Coordination (no week meeting)
6	04/Mar	08/Mar	Spatial Data Visualization in R	Choropleth maps
7	11/Mar	15/Mar	Final Project: presentation and feedback
8¹	18/Mar	22/Mar	Project Submission

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