Past Assignments

Week 2 (2/5-2/7)

• Reading: Read first Chapter of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
  • What example/point was the most interesting to you?
  • What is one thing you did not understand or want to discuss?
• Lab: Python, Programming, and IDLE: Getting Oriented Due Thursday 5/7
  • Read Chapter 1 of our Visualization Text
  • StartPython.py
  • Do Exercises 1 - 5 at the end of the Chapter. Print out and submit all figures.  Please answer all thought questions in each exercise and submit a write-up.
  • The DrugData file

Week 3 (2/12-2/14)

• Reading: Read Chapters 2-3 of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
  • What example/point was the most interesting to you?
  • What is one thing you did not understand or want to discuss?
• Lab: Python, Programming, and IDLE: Getting Oriented Due Thursday 5/14
  • Read Chapter 2 of our Visualization Text
  • Do Exercises 1 - 5 at the end of the Chapter. Print out and submit all figures.  Please answer all thought questions in each exercise and submit a write-up. Submit any modules that you write.
  • The DrugData file
• Key Lab 2

Week 4 (2/19-2/21)

• Lab: Names, Types and Objects Due Thursday 2/21
  • Read Chapter 3 of our Visualization Text
  • Do Exercises 1 - 5 at the end of the Chapter.  Please answer all thought questions in each exercise and submit a write-up. Submit any modules that you write.
  • The graphics.py file and reference manual can be downloaded from the links section.
• Key Lab 3: i.e. the solution modules

Week 5 (2/26-2/28)

• Reading: Chapter 4-6 of the Tufte book.
  
  
• Lab: Univariate Visualization, Strings and Arrays Due Thursday 2/28
  • Read Chapter 4 of our Visualization Text
  • Do all exercises at the end of the Chapter (1-6).  Please answer all thought questions in each exercise and submit a write-up. Submit any code that you write.
  • The graphics.py file and reference manual can be downloaded from the links section.
  • The BallotData.py file
  • Answers were e-mailed to class

Week 6: No assignments

Week 7: Car Visualization Assignment Handed out in class

Week 8: Spring Break

Week 9:

• • Car Visualization Part II Handed Out in class
  • Reading: Finish Tufte Book

Week 10:

• • ?

Week 11:

• • Lab
  • • Read Chapter 5 of our Visualization Text and do exercises. #3A is extra credit
    • Answers

Week 12:

• Lab
• • Read Chapter 6 of our Visualization Text and do exercises.
  • Rock, Paper, Scissors Solutions

Week 13:

• Reading: Review final chapters of Tufte book for Thursday
  
  
• For Monday April 21, by 5 pm, read and complete the exercises outlined in Chapter 7. You will need the following files: myfile.txt, total_losses.txt, paid_losses.txt. Hand in the following via e-mail or blackboard: code solutions (.py files) for Exercise 1; histogram.py file updated according to instructions.  Copy of created output file.
  

Week 14: