This site contains course materials for BIOL7263 Data Wrangling and Visualization for Biology, Fall 2022.

Course Materials

Scheduling Survey

Presentation sign-up sheet

Software Installation

Course Syllabus

Lesson Presentation Assignment


Lecture Outlines & Homework Assignments

Date (week of) Lecture Assignments
August 22 Class organization and scheduling -
August 29 RStudio, Git Assignment 1
September 5 Rmarkdown Assignment 2
September 12 Intro to Regular Expressions Assignment 3, MBT solution 3
September 19 Intro to R, Data import/export with readr, dplyr and wrangling
September 26 Tidy, Merge and Compare Assignment 4, MBT solution 4, Assignment 5, MBT solution 5
October 3 Intro to ggplot, ggplot aesthetics, facet and patchwork
October 10 Beyond Bar Graphs, Inkscape Assignment 6, MBT solution 6
October 17 GIS in R Assignment 7
October 24 Acuity View Lesson - Mierow, Loop the loop - Adamic see lesson link
October 31 AIC in R - West, PCA in R - Cartmell see lesson links
November 7 Functions in R - Lewis, Rentrez - Paslay see lesson links
November 14 Phytools - Bierbaum, Geomorph - Hansen see lesson links
November 21 Thanksgiving break -
November 28 Heatmaps - Herrboldt, Creating your own package - Delaporte, Spatial Data - Pletcher see lesson links
December 5 Last day of classes -

Important Dates

  • 26 August: Last day to add classes through self-service
  • 30 August: Last day to add/drop through advising
  • 5 September: Labor day
  • 11 November: Last day to withdraw
  • 21-25 November: Thanksgiving Break
  • 5 December: Last day of classes

Member portfolios

Name Github site Portfolio website
Matt Toomey Github Portfolio
Elise Delaporte GitHub Portfolio
Emily Adamic Github Portfolio
Madison Herrboldt Github Portfolio
Rebekah Hansen Github Portfolio
Anand Karki Github Portfolio
Cari Lewis Github Portfolio
Morgan Beeman Github Portfolio
Olivia Pletcher Github Portfolio
Amy West Github Portfolio
Caleb Paslay Github Portfolio
Laci Cartmell Github Portfolio
Emily Bierbaum Github Portfolio
Tanner Mierow Github Portfolio