| Course Title: Foundations of Data and Visualization |
| Start Date: 09/03/2025 End Date: 12/16/2025 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2025 |
| Description: Pictures, plots, and visualizations can be incredibly effective ways to understand information, tell stories, and make arguments. But how do you know if a picture is telling the truth? How do you make a picture that tells your story? In this course, we'll explore ways to understand, critique, and create different types of data visualizations: things you'll see in the news and generate in your future jobs. We'll also focus on building foundational skills and comfort with data, code, and tools that will prepare you not just for future statistics and data science courses, but also for the ever-growing quantitative component of work in the humanities and social sciences. |
| Distribution(s): II - Math & Sciences |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Laurie Tupper | ltupper@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 09/03/2025 - 12/16/2025 | Discussion | Monday, Wednesday and Friday | 03:15PM - 04:30PM | CLAP - Clapp Laboratory | 401 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| None |
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| Cross-listed Sections |
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| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 15 | Enrollment: 5 | Available: 10 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| To be determined. |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is NOT the complete book list for this class. |