1 Hello world

We will start by showing you what is possible at the end of the class and running a reasonably complex visualization code in your environment. The goal of this Hello world part is not to make you understand every bit of the code but instead, make you hungry for more. We aim for you to code such a visualization from scratch at the end of our course. To reach that goal, we will — step by step — introduce you to the most relevant facets of Data Science with R and the Tidyverse.

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1.1 Slides, application exercises, and references

Unit 1 - Deck 1: Welcome

Your first data visualization: UN Votes

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Unit 1 - Deck 2: Meet the toolkit — Programming

The Bechdel Test + R Markdown

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This exercise uses data from the following FiveThirtyEight story on the Bechdel Test:

Hickey, W. (2014, April 1): The Dollar-And-Cents Case Against Hollywood’s Exclusion of Women, FiveThirtyEight.com