Content updates for 2026

[samanthacsik]

I know I have too much content to get through, and I was hopeful that the templates would facilitate faster coding...but alas.

For next year, I think it might make sense to keep all content in the slides, but reduce the number of examples in the templates and associated keys. So basically, make all current examples and code available for students to reference in the slides (which include written explanations), but only intend to cover a subset of those during class using the template / key files.

Below are things I think I can reasonably cut from the templates / keys:

Lecture 2.2 (distributions)

• combining geoms (histogram & density plot)
• compare groups to whole
• basic ridgeline plot (consider keeping this in...)
• reminder that you can reorder factor levels during the data wrangling stage (for ridgeline plots; add this more explicitly to the slides)
• add quantiles to ridgeline plots
• jitter raw data on top (regular & raincloud)
• boxplot modify outliers
• boxplot dodged groups
• boxplot + beeswarm
• half violin / half dot plot (using {see})

Lecture 2.3 (evolution)

all seems good here

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Lecture 4.1 (amounts)

• don't think hjust is being used correctly here? also explore nudge_x/y

Week 4

• started lecture 5.1 and got ~15 slides in

Week 5

• got through all colors and choropleth lectures with ~15min remaining. Not enough time to get through lecture 5.1 (can we move this elsewhere?)

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Random

• Lecture 5.1 took 3 weeks to get through in bits and pieces. Need to figure out a better plan for this...

Week 6

• Finishing ~25 slides of 5.1 + typography lecture + JUST Mono Lake annotations took all 3hrs. Didn't touch on geom_text() or any of the lobster plot
• Discussion 6 (saving plots) only took Annie 25 min to get through