Due: Sep 14 by 11:59pm
Weight: This assignment is worth 3% of your final grade.
Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to get familiar with creating plots using the ggplot2 library and to introduce you to the “RMarkdown” file format.
Assessment: This assignment is graded using a check system:
- ✔+ (110%): Responses shows phenomenal thought and engagement with the course content. I will not assign these often.
- ✔ (100%): Responses are thoughtful, well-written, and show engagement with the course content. This is the expected level of performance.
- ✔− (50%): Responses are hastily composed, too short, and/or only cursorily engages with the course content. This grade signals that you need to improve next time. I will hopefully not assign these often.
Notice that this is essentially a pass/fail system. I’m not grading your writing ability and I’m not counting the number of words you write - I’m looking for thoughtful engagement.
Download and edit this template when working through this assignment. Notice that this week’s template is a .Rmd file.
Open up a notebook (physical, digital…whatever you take notes in best), and take notes while you go through these readings:
Running through these RStudio Primer exercises to practice making charts with ggplot - we’ll do more of this in class next week:
Reflect on what you’ve learned while going through these readings and exercises. Is there anything that jumped out at you? Anything you found particularly interesting or confusing? After reflecting, do the following: