The following is the preliminary schedule of topics and will be adjusted as the semester progress.
| Week | Class Dates | Topic | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 08/27 & 08/29 | Intro to the course and markdown, and Quarto | html |
| 2 | 09/03 & 09/05 | Intro to R: data types, flow control, and functions | html |
| 3 | 09/10 & 09/12 | Vectors, slicing, and map(ping) | html |
| 4 | 09/17 & 09/19 | Getting data into R data.frames via files and spreadsheets | html |
| 5 | 09/24 & 09/26 | Tidy Data | html |
| 6 | 10/01 & 11/03 | Joins and databases | html |
| 7 | 10/08 & 10/10 | Text manipulation and regular expressions | html |
| 8 | 10/15 & 10/17 | Introduction to plotting and ggplot2 | html |
| 9 | 10/22 & 10/24 | Plot types in ggplot2 | html |
| 10/29 | Fall Break | ||
| 10 | 10/31 | Principles of displaying data & how to modify plots | html |
| 11/05 | Election Day | ||
| 11/07 | Principles of displaying data & how to modify plots | ||
| 11 | 11/12 & 11/14 | Colors and heat maps | html |
| 12 | 11/19 | Visualizing/analyzing lots of data | html |
| 11/21 | Research data management (UK Data Librarian Isaac Wink) | ||
| 13 | 11/26 | Networks | |
| 11/28 | Thanksgiving Break | ||
| 14 | 12/03 | Project presentations | |
| 12/05 | Project presentations | ||
| 12/10 | No class - JVC at Conference |