Notes Links Due
Welcome to the Course
Sign up for Piazza
Introduce yourself to your classmates
Sign up for Gradescope You have been added to the course automatically.
Introduce yourself to your professor. Jan 7, 11:59 pm
Getting to Know the Course Website     Take time go over the contents of this website, especially read the policies section. Do not forget to bookmark introdata.science.
Syllabus quiz Timed 30 minutes. Jan 7, 11:59 pm
Download VPN     Use the instructions to download VPN so that you can access resources that are only available on the campus network.
Download and install R     Yes, you do need to download and install unless you have the latest version.
Download and install RStudio     Yes, you do need to download and install unless you have the latest version. Download the free Desktop version.
First Steps in R  
First Steps in R Markdown  
Do you git it?    
Introduction to Data  
Reading from IMS book Section 1.2.1
Data Types  
Data Quiz In the repo for weekly materials. After you are done, do not forget to push it. Jan 7, 11:59 pm
What is the Question? Optional Reading. Make sure to read the chart carefully.
Homework 1 Will be posted on Friday to the course organization. Jan 16, 11:59 pm


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Welcome to Week 2
Introduction to Data Visualization  
Introduction to ggplot  
Data Visualization Vocabulary Quiz Jan 14, 11:59 pm
More ggplot  
Data Visualization Quiz In the repo for weekly materials. After you are done, do not forget to push it. Jan 14, 11:59 pm
Top Ten Dos and Don'ts for Charts and Graphs Required reading
Homework 2 Timed, 40 minutes. Jan 22, 11:59 pm


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Welcome to Week 3
The Pipe Operator  
Subsetting data frames  
Changing Variables  
Aggregating Data  
Data Cleaning and Aggregating Quiz In the repo for weekly materials. After you are done, do not forget to push it. Jan 21, 11:59 pm
Homework 3 In course organization you will find your own repo hw3-username on Friday. Jan 29, 11:59 pm


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Welcome to Week 4
R packages  
Importing Data  
Data Joins  
Dealing with Data Frames Quiz In the repo for weekly materials. After you are done, do not forget to push it. Jan 28, 11:59 pm


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Welcome to Week 5
Introduction to HTML and CSS  
Web Scraping  
API wrappers  
Writing Functions  
Iteration  
Considerations about Web Data  
Quiz 5 In the repo for weekly materials. After you are done, do not forget to push it. Feb 4, 11:59 pm


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Welcome to Week 6
Working with Factors  
Working with Dates  
Working with Strings  
Collaborating on GitHub
Quiz 6 In the repo for weekly materials. After you are done, do not forget to push it. Feb 11, 11:59 pm
Final Project Proposal Instructions are in the weekly repo. Feb 12, 11:59 pm
Regular Expressions Optional Reading. Chapter 9 - 15
Regular Expressions Optional Exercises. Can serve as brain teasers.


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Welcome to Week 7
Samples and Populations  
Study Design  
Understanding Studies Quiz Feb 18, 11:59 pm
Variance  
Reading from IMS book Sections 2.1.4
Bootstrapping  
Reading from IMS book Sections 5.2
Variance and Bootstrapping Quiz In the repo for weekly materials. Feb 18, 11:59 pm


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Simple Linear Regression  
Indicator Variables  
Simple Linear Regression Quiz Feb 25, 11:59 pm
Multiple Linear Regression  
Multiple Linear Regression Quiz Feb 25, 11:59 pm


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Welcome to Week 9
Transformations  
Logistic Regression  
Logistic Regression Quiz March 4, 11:59 pm
Consider Linear Modeling Meet with your groups to discuss using linear or logistic regression in your final projects. March 4, 08:00 pm


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Welcome to Week 10
Model Evaluation and Validation  
Modeling Quiz Instructions are in the weekly repo March 12, 4:00 pm
Making Presentations using xaringan
Closing Remarks
Final Project Presentations Instructions are in the weekly repo March 18, 08:00 - 10:00 am
Final Project Repo Make sure to push all the files in the repo March 18, 08:00 am