| Week | Date | Topic | App Ex | Due |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | 8/25/15 | Introduction [slides] [handout] | Can Twitter predict election results? | |
| 8/27/15 | Introduction to R/Rstudio and git/GitHub [slides] [handout] | HW 0 + Survey + Pretest | ||
| Week 2 | 9/1/15 | R / Rstudio / GitHub demo [slides] [handout] | Read Tidy Data paper + Case studies | |
| 9/3/15 | Tidy data & Intro to data visualization [slides] [handout] | |||
| Week 3 | 9/8/15 | Hands on data visualization: Work on HW1 | HW 1 | |
| 9/10/15 | Data wrangling [slides] [handout] | |||
| Week 4 | 9/15/15 | Data types + Data expeditions: Paris Paintings [slides] [handout] | Explore Paris Paintings | |
| 9/17/15 | The langauge of models + Data expeditions: Paris Paintings [slides] [handout] | Modeling prices of Paris Paintings - a simple approach (first) | ||
| Week 5 | 9/22/15 | Transforming data + Data expeditions: Paris Paintings [slides] [handout] | Modeling log transformed prices of Paris Paintings | |
| 9/24/15 | Interactions and model selection + Data expeditions: Paris Paintings [slides] [handout] | Selecting models for Paris Paintings | ||
| Week 6 | 9/29/15 | Modeling recap + Wrap up of Paris Paintings Data Expedition [slides] [handout] | ||
| 10/1/15 | Prediction and model validation [slides] [handout] | |||
| Week 7 | 10/6/15 | Work on MT project | ||
| 10/8/15 | MT Project Presentations | MT Project | ||
| Week 8 | 10/13/15 | Fall break - no class | ||
| 10/15/15 | Hypothesis testing via simulation [slides] [handout] | Inference for a proportion | ||
| 10/16/15 | HW 2 (due by 5pm) | |||
| Week 9 | 10/20/15 | Functions + More on hypothesis testing [slides] [handout] | Functionalized inference | |
| 10/22/15 | More on functions + Bootstrapping [slides] [handout] | |||
| Week 10 | 10/27/15 | Wrap up one var inf + Testing for independence [slides] [handout] | Is yawning contagious? | |
| 10/29/15 | Work on randomization app ex | |||
| Week 11 | 11/3/15 | CLT + CLT based inference, Pt 1 [slides] [handout] | Exploring the CLT via simulation | |
| 11/5/15 | CLT based inference, Pt 2 [slides] [handout] | |||
| Week 12 | 11/10/15 | CLT based inference, Pt 3 [slides] [handout] | ||
| 11/12/15 | Interactive visualizations with Shiny, Pt. 1 [slides] [handout] | Shine bright like a diamond | HW 3 (due by class) | |
| Week 13 | 11/17/15 | Interactive visualizations with Shiny, Pt. 2 [slides] [handout] | ||
| Guest speaker: Aaron Berdanier | ||||
| 11/19/15 | Scraping data off the web [slides] [handout] | |||
| 11/20/15 | Final project proposal by 5pm | |||
| Week 14 | 11/24/15 | Bayesian inference, Pt. 1 [slides] [handout] | ||
| 11/26/15 | Thanksgiving break - no class | |||
| 11/29/15 | HW 4 | |||
| Week 15 | 12/1/15 | Bayesian inference, Pt. 2 [slides] [handout] | ||
| 12/3/15 | Final project presentations | |||
| Finals | 12/8/15 | Final exam due at 10pm |