Analyzing and Visualizing Data in Politics

These are notes and slides that accompany the undergraduate “Analyzing and Visualizing Data in Politics” course that I taught at MSU. The focus is on building data visualization skills with ggplot, then introducing dplyr and other tools for data wrangling to develop more advanced visualizations.

Slides

• Introduction to the course
• Intro to visualization and ggplot2
• ggplot2: geoms and scales
• ggplot2: groups and facets
• ggplot2: more facets, histograms
• ggplot2: boxplots and density
• ggplot2: annotations and text
• ggplot2: themes and wrapup