Deadlines
No class Monday (Labor Day).
- Moodle Reading Mon Sep 13, midnight
- Practice 1 Mon Sep 13, midnight
- Book Ch. 1 — There's No Such Thing as a Raw Number — read for Forum 1, Fri Sep 17 (next week)
- Quiz 1 Fri Sep 10, in class
Week 2: Dataframe Basics
Learning Objectives
- 02A I can manipulate the structure and contents of pandas DataFrames by accessing, adding, and deleting rows and columns.
- 02B I can sort, filter, and query DataFrames to find and highlight specific information.
- 02C I can choose appropriate visual encodings (axes, color, size, symbol, text) to represent variables in a visualization.
Perspectival Reading
Reading: TBD
Reflection Questions
- The DataFrame abstracts away the messiness of real data — what gets hidden in that abstraction?
- Who decides what a “row” and a “column” represent, and what is at stake in that choice?
- Data types encode assumptions about the world. What happens when reality doesn’t fit the available types?