Course Schedule
This schedule may be updated as the semester progresses.
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| Week 1 |
Mon, Aug 17 |
Welcome and introduction |
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Wed, Aug 19 |
Fundamentals of R |
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Fri, Aug 21 |
Data types and functions |
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| Week 2 |
Mon, Aug 24 |
Lab 01 |
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Wed, Aug 26 |
Shell and version control |
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Homework 1 assigned |
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Fri, Aug 28 |
Data structures and subsetting |
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| Week 3 |
Mon, Aug 31 |
Lab 02 |
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Wed, Sep 02 |
Subsetting and S3 OO system |
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Homework 2 assigned |
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Fri, Sep 04 |
Data manipulation with dplyr |
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| Week 4 |
Mon, Sep 07 |
Lab 03 |
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Wed, Sep 09 |
Data reshaping with tidyr and functionals with purrr |
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Homework 3 assigned |
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Fri, Sep 11 |
Statistical graphics with ggplot2 |
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| Week 5 |
Mon, Sep 14 |
Lab 04 |
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Wed, Sep 16 |
Advanced visualizations |
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Fri, Sep 18 |
String manipulation and regexes |
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Exam 1 data published |
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| Week 6 |
Mon, Sep 21 |
Lab 05 |
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Exam 1 tasks assigned |
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Wed, Sep 23 |
Spatial data with sf |
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Fri, Sep 25 |
Web scraping part I |
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| Week 7 |
Mon, Sep 28 |
Lab 06 |
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Wed, Sep 30 |
Web scraping part II |
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Fri, Oct 02 |
Web APIs |
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| Week 8 |
Mon, Oct 05 |
Lab 07 |
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Wed, Oct 07 |
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Homework 4 assigned |
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Fri, Oct 09 |
Shiny part I |
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| Week 9 |
Mon, Oct 12 |
Lab 08 |
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Wed, Oct 14 |
Shiny part II |
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Fri, Oct 16 |
Databases and SQL |
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Exam 2 assigned |
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| Week 10 |
Mon, Oct 19 |
Lab 09 |
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Wed, Oct 21 |
SQLite, sqlite3, and more |
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Fri, Oct 23 |
Working with big data |
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| Week 11 |
Mon, Oct 26 |
Lab 10 |
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Project assigned |
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Wed, Oct 28 |
Parallelization |
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Homework 5 assigned |
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Fri, Oct 30 |
More parallelization and profiling |
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| Week 12 |
Mon, Nov 02 |
Lab 11 |
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Wed, Nov 04 |
Spark & sparklyr part I |
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Fri, Nov 06 |
Spark & sparklyr part II |
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Homework 6 assigned |
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| Week 13 |
Mon, Nov 09 |
Lab 12 |
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Wed, Nov 11 |
Integration: R and Python |
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Fri, Nov 13 |
Integration: R and C++ |
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| Week 14 |
Mon, Nov 16 |
Lab 13 |
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