The Art of Data Visualization (AMS-080B) is a new class offered by the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics that satisfies the SR (Statistical Reasoning) general education requirement.  The class is targeted to students in the Arts, as well as other disciplines with limited quantitaive backgrounds.

This is a course on telling stories using computer-generated scientific graphics.  Students will learn to use computer software (in particular, the R package)  to generate complex scientific graphs (boxplots, dotplots, buble plots, maps, word clouds/trees, network graphs, etc). Students will also be expected to learn how to assemble multiple graphs together into infographics with a coherent narrative.

Students will be evaluated ont he basis of a midterm exam and a final project.  The final projects will be presented at a two-hour public exhibition in the Engineering Courtyard on the week of March 17-21, 2013, and will be evaluated by a panel of faculty from multiple departments.