CSCI P-14110 Introduction to Programming, Computational Science, and Data Visualization

This is the course website for Intro to Programming and Data Viz, instructed by Jill P. Naiman (jnaiman@illinois.edu, jill.naiman@cfa.harvard.edu).

The Canvas webpage is where Assignments will be posted: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/72794

Slack site is: TBD

Below, you will find the materials for each lesson, as well as a syllabus that includes contact information and a course outline.

Homework resubmission policy: if you want to re-submit a new answer for a graded HW, you can earn up to 1/2 of the points back (for example: if you missed 4 points you can earn up to 2 back on your resubmission).

References

Some handy references you might appreciate:

• matplotlib tutorial
• python tutorial
• Markdown Cheat Sheet
• Jupyter Cheat Sheet
• Windows-to-Mac Commands Conversion Cheat Sheet

Extra programming resources

• Intro to Programming by E.Wickes which is much more text-data based

Last iterations of this class (and related classes)

• CSCI P-14110, Summer 2019
• Data Viz, Spring 2020, UIUC

Course syllabus

Lesson Lectures and Materials

• Syllabus
• Lesson 1 - Introduction
• Lesson 2 - More intro to programming, flow control
• Lesson 3 - Functions, Reading data in general and with Pandas
• Lesson 4 - Intro to Data Viz & More with Pandas
• Lesson 5 - Holiday!
• Lesson 6 - Colors & Color Theory
• Lesson 7 - Intro to maps, beginning interactivity with ipywidgets
• Lesson 8 - Linked views with bqplot & Intro to the Planetary Dataset
• Lesson 9 - Sci Viz vs. Info viz, Movies - 2D & 3D, Publish your viz (optional)
• Lesson 10 - 3D graphics concepts, Online interactive 3D geometry with Sketchfab

Assignments will be posted on Canvas