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\title{Your paper}
\author{STAT 330 \textbullet{} Instructor Name}
\date{Spring 2027}

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\noindent STAT 330, 3 credits. Lectures Tuesday and Thursday 13:00--14:15, Room 101.
Studio Friday 10:00--11:50, Lab 110. Prerequisite: an introductory statistics course.

\section{Who and where}
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Instructor & Instructor Name, Room 214 \\
E-mail & \texttt{[email protected]} \\
Office hours & Wednesday 14:00--16:00 \\
Teaching assistant & TA Name, \texttt{[email protected]} \\
TA office hours & Monday 11:00--12:00, Lab 110 \\
\end{tabular}

\section{Course description}
\newthought{Graphs are arguments.} This course teaches how to design statistical graphics
that show data honestly and clearly: choosing encodings, removing clutter, comparing
small multiples, and writing the words that go with a figure. Weekly studios turn real
data sets into publishable figures.\marginnote{\textbf{Attendance.} Studios are
hands-on and cannot be repeated; attend every one. Two absences are excused without
question.}

\section{Learning outcomes}
By the end of the term you will be able to
\begin{enumerate}
  \item match a data question to an appropriate graphical form;
  \item critique a published figure for accuracy, density and clarity;
  \item produce reproducible figures from code;
  \item present a data story to a non-specialist audience.
\end{enumerate}

\section{Required materials}
A laptop with a statistical programming environment; the course reader of classic and
current figures, opening with Shannon's paper on information\cite{shannon1948}; a sketchbook for paper prototypes.\marginnote{\textbf{Late work.} Studio
exercises are due Sunday 23:59. Each day late costs 10\%; you have three free
``grace days'' for the term.}

\section{Schedule}
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Week & Theme & Studio \\
\midrule
1 & Why visualise? Data, ink and the eye & Redraw a bad chart \\
2 & Perception and encodings & Position versus colour \\
3 & Distributions & Histograms and density strips \\
4 & Comparisons and small multiples & A grid of panels \\
5 & Time series & Sparklines \\
6 & Relationships and scatter plots & Annotated scatter \\
7 & Midterm critique & -- \\
8 & Colour and accessibility & Palette audit \\
9 & Maps and spatial data & Choropleth \\
10 & Uncertainty & Intervals and bands \\
11 & Interaction and narration & Storyboard \\
12 & Final presentations & -- \\
\bottomrule
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\section{Assessment}
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Component & Weight \\
\midrule
Weekly studio exercises & 30\% \\
Written critiques (3) & 15\% \\
Midterm critique & 20\% \\
Final project and presentation & 35\% \\
\midrule
Total & 100\% \\
\bottomrule
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\noindent Grading scale: A 90\% and above; B 80--89\%; C 70--79\%; D 60--69\%;
F below 60\%.\marginnote{\textbf{Academic integrity.} Reuse of code and figures is
allowed only with citation. Submitting another person's design as your own is
misconduct.}

\section{Policies}
The margin notes on these pages set out the attendance, late-work and integrity rules.
In addition:\marginnote{\textbf{Accessibility.} Contact the accessibility office and
the instructor early; figures in this course are also provided as text descriptions.}
\begin{itemize}
  \item laptops are needed in studios, but please close unrelated tabs;
  \item questions about grades should be sent within one week of their release.
\end{itemize}

\section{Important dates}
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January 19 & First lecture \\
February 1 & Last day to add or drop \\
March 4 & Midterm critique \\
March 8--12 & Spring break \\
April 22 & Final project draft \\
May 4 & Final presentations \\
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@article{shannon1948,
  author  = {Shannon, C. E.},
  title   = {A Mathematical Theory of Communication},
  journal = {Bell System Technical Journal},
  volume  = {27},
  number  = {3},
  pages   = {379--423},
  year    = {1948},
  doi     = {10.1002/j.1538-7305.1948.tb01338.x}
}

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