Schedule

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	Date	Topic	Reading	Notes
	Mon, Aug 25	Introduction		Codeschool - Try R
	Wed, Aug 27	Using the Shell [Slides]
	Fri, Aug 29	Using and Configuring ssh [Slides]
	Mon, Sep 1	Using git and github [Slides]	Git tutotials	Git Cheat Sheet
	Wed, Sep 3	R data structures [Slides]	Adv-R Data Structures	R Markdown Cheatsheet
	Fri, Sep 5	R data structures cont.	stringr	Homework 1, Matching Example
	Mon, Sep 8	Subsetting [Slides]	Adv-R Subsetting
	Wed, Sep 10	Functions and Loops [Slides]	Adv-R Functions
	Mon, Sep 15	Apply functions and Benchmarking [Slides]	Adv-R Functionals
	Wed, Sep 17	Introduction to make	minimal make, Why use make	Make example repo
	Mon, Sep 22	Web Scraping		Homework 2, Starbucks example repo
	Wed, Sep 24	Web Scraping cont.		rvest, SelectorGadget
	Mon, Sep 29	Spatial Data Types [Slides]		Country GeoJSON
	Wed, Oct 1	Shapefiles and rgeos [Slides]	Shapefiles Dimensionally Extended 9-Intersection Model	HW2 Makefile Example
	Mon, Oct 6	Bigish data [Slides]		Homework 3
	Wed, Oct 8	dplyr [Slides]	Vignettes
	Wed, Oct 15	Vectorization and Joins [Slides]		hw3_merge_ex.R
	Mon, Oct 20	dplyr and SQL [Slides]	dplyr database vignette	How Indexes Work, SQL Intro
	Wed, Oct 22	SVM Example		HW3 Leader Board, School District Example (SVM)
	Mon, Oct 27	Graphs and Page Rank		HW4, Final Project, Page Rank Example
	Wed, Oct 29	Testing using testthat and Travis-CI [Slides]	testthat article R Packages - testing chapter
	Mon, Nov 3	A brief tour of R package structure [Slides]	Writing R Extensions R Packages
	Wed, Nov 5	Recursion		has_loop example
	Mon, Nov 10	Parallelization [Slides]	parallel, doMC and foreach	HW5
	Wed, Nov 12	MapReduce		MapReduce example
	Mon, Nov 17	BLAS and LAPACK [Slides]	parallel, doMC and foreach	Matrix Multiply examples
	Wed, Nov 19	Rcpp [Slides]	Rcpp.org
	Mon, Nov 24	HTCondor [Slides]	Condor