Program

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Pre-workshop

Pre-workshop tutorials
If you are new to R (or new to the ggplot2 or data.table packages), we recommend you complete the three introductory tutorials listed below. Completing these tutorials before attending the Institute will make your time with us that much more productive.

Tuesday, July 11

Join the online office hours

Office hours
1:00–5:00 pm Eastern Time. We are available for answering questions and resolving problems you encounter installing R or working with R in the three pre-workshop tutorials.

Wednesday, July 12

Join the online meeting

Introductions slides
1:00–1:50 Eastern Time
Introduce facilitators and participants, objectives, and MIDFIELD.

Break
1:50–2:00

Exploring data structure slides
2:00–3:00
Exploring data excerpts manually.

Guided practice.
3:00–5:00
Self-paced case study using midfieldr and midfielddata. Real-time help.

Wrap-up.
before 5:00
Please check in with us before leaving the virtual meeting.

Homework

  • Complete the guided practice “Data” tutorial.
  • For our think-share activities in tomorrow’s data visualization session, consider printing a hard-copy of the worksheet. (Download link in tomorrow’s program below.)
  • Optional (FYI). Topics from today’s guided practice are developed in greater detail in midfieldr package vignettes [link].

Thursday, July 13

Join the online meeting

Metaphors and metrics slides
1:00–1:30 Eastern Time
Pipelines, pathways, and ecosystems.

Supplement. slides. Finding the migration yield metric. A supplemental reference that outlines our iterative process of develop an argument that concludes with a new metric (migration yield) and its chart. Illustrates the iterative interplay between one’s visual rhetoric and one’s verbal rhetoric.

Break
1:30–1:40

Guided practice
1:40–2:30
Case study: Results Continue the case study.

Data visualization session 1 slides worksheets
2:30–3:20
A hard-copy printout of the worksheet is recommended for our think-share activities. We demonstrate the perceptual limitations of common graph types and suggest more effective alternatives. Our goals in visual rhetoric are

  • Improving perception of stories in the data
  • Facilitating quantitative reasoning about the data
  • Enhancing credibility of evidence supporting an argument

Break
3:20–3:30

Drafting a research question. slides
3:30–5:00
Define a problem in the data that interests you with our assistance, form small groups. Report out your research questions and discussion.

Resources

Wrap-up.
before 5:00
Please check in with us before leaving the virtual meeting.

Homework

  • Complete the guided practice “Results” tutorial.
  • Refine your plan for working on your research question.
  • For our think-share activities in tomorrow’s data visualization session, consider printing a hard-copy of the worksheet. (Download link in tomorrow’s program below.)
  • Optional (FYI). Topics from today’s guided practice are developed in greater detail in midfieldr package vignettes [link].

Friday, July 14

Join the online meeting

Data visualization session 2: Expanding your graphical repertoire slides worksheets
1:00–2:00 Eastern Time
A hard-copy printout of the worksheet is recommended for our think-share activities. We illustrate a repertoire of chart types and how they are suited to specific data structures and answering specific types of questions.

Guest speaker slides Sankey diagram by Erica Ives
2:00–2:10

Work on your research question suggested goals
2:10–3:30
Consult with us on your progress, discussion

Data dictionaries for the MIDFIELD research data set.

Progress report
3:30–4:30
Share with the group.

Wrap up slides
4:40–4:45

After the workshop

R resources Additional links and books you might find useful