BMI 5/625, Spring 2026

April 20 / 22 / Week 4

Digging in to graphs

Monday

• RMarkdown clinic
• Digging in to graphs

Reading

• Wilke, Chapters 5-10
  • They’re short, don’t worry!
• Additionally (Optional)
  • Borkin, M. A., Vo, A. A., Bylinskii, Z., Isola, P., Sunkavalli, S., Oliva, A., & Pfister, H. (2013). What Makes a Visualization Memorable? IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 19(12), 2306–2315. http://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2013.234

Online Activity

Discussion forum prompt:

Useful Reference

• For a good overview of how to make a simple static website using RMarkdown, see “rmarkdown’s site generator” (section 10.5 of the RMarkdown Book)

  Assignment

• Data visualization brief (see Sakai)
  • Also see the overview for a dataviz brief.

Wednesday

Lab!