Case Study 1: Critiquing Visualizations and Slack Setup

Background

Your first weekly project requires you to submit a review of 4-5 different data visualizations used to answer specific questions. Some fun websites are pudding.cool, wonkblog, fivethiryeight, and priceonomics (but you can use any website, blog, or article with a good visualization).

The submit word above will require you to create an account on slack. Our slack workspace is byuidwv.slack.com. You must use your @byui.edu email to create an account.

• Course Website

Reading

This reading will help you complete the tasks below.

• o Making your first R Markdown File
• o Chapter 27: R for Data Science - R Markdown
• o Chapter 30: R for Data Science - R Markdown workflow

Tasks

• [ ] Find 4-5 examples of data-driven answers and write a one-paragraph review of each.
  • [ ] List 2-3 items that are unique/good
  • [ ] Identify 1 issue with the each example
• [ ] Create an .Rmd file in R-Studio
  • [ ] Title it Case Study 1 in the YAML
  • [ ] Include links to the visualization post you found
  • [ ] Write a one paragraph critique of each visualization
  • [ ] Add the R code below to your .Rmd file
  • [ ] Knit the file to .html and keep the .md file as well
• [ ] Create an account on slack.
  • [ ] Find the text on the slack webpage that says ‘If you have an @byui.edu email address, you can create an account.’ and use that link.
  • [ ] You might create a catchy username that matches your other social media usernames and that can follow you for your career. Mine is hathawayj.
• [ ] Upload your intermediary .md file to the general channel in our Slack group

Code Snippet

plot(1:20)