Resources

Syllabus
Project Verbal Assessment Schedule
Zoom Room for lectures and office hours
Canvas
Piazza
RStudio Cheatsheets

.RMD Homework Template
Email response format:
.R Homework format:

Schedule

Week 1

• March 30
• Topics: brief syllabus overview and questions, addressing common R and RStudio installation problems, programming basics
• Active Lecture: Zoom Meeting Audio Recording (ignore after the discussion of Piazza), Video Lecture (R as a Calculator)
• Lecture Slides
• Suggested Homework (not due, try it before Wednesday lecture)
• April 1
• Topics: solution to optional homework, functions, variable assignment, data types, .R files, submitting homework
• Active Lecture: Zoom Recording
• Lecture 2 code (probably not useful to you, but here if you need it)
• Homework 1 Graded

Week 2

• April 6
• Topics: basic data types cont'd, writing your own functions, control flow, for loops
• Recorded Lecture: Zoom Cloud Recording, YouTube
• Lecture 3 code
• Homework 2 Completion
• Homework 1 Graded solution key
• April 8
• Topics: HW 1 Graded solutions, for and while loops, debugging functions, matrices
• Recorded Lecture: Zoom Cloud Recording, YouTube
• Lecture 4 code
• Homework 2 Graded
• Homework 2 Completion solution key

Week 3

• April 13
• Topics: Lists and Data Frames, Old Faithful and Coronavirus data
• Recorded Lecture: Zoom Cloud Recording, YouTube
• Lecture 5 code, Coronavirus Data
• Homework 3 Completion
• April 15
• Topics: Data Wranglin'
• Recorded Lecture: Zoom Cloud Recording, YouTube
• Lecture 6 code, Coronavirus Data, Lecture Slides
• Homework 3 Graded
• Homework 2 Graded solution key
• Homework 3 Completion solution key

Week 4

• April 20
• Topics: different ways of running R code, R Markdown, plotting techniques
• Recorded Lecture: Zoom Cloud Recording, YouTube
• Lecture 7 code, primes.R
• Homework 4 Completion
• Homework 3 Graded solution key
• April 22
• Topics: linear models
• Recorded Lecture: Zoom Cloud Recording, YouTube
• Lecture 8 code, SAT Data, Lecture Slides
• Homework 4 Graded

Week 5

• April 27
• Topics: diagnosing linear models and checking assumptions in R
• Recorded Lecture: Zoom Cloud Recording, YouTube
• Lecture 9 code
• Homework 5 Completion
• Homework 4 Graded solution key: .RMD, HTML
• April 29
• Topics: transformations of variables in linear models, interactions, and inference
• Recorded Lecture: Zoom Cloud Recording, YouTube
• Lecture 10 code, SAT Data, Lecture Slides
• Homework 5 Graded
• No HW 5 Completion solution because it asks you to find your own data...

Week 6

• May 4
• Topics: Factors, Model Fit vs. Prediction
• Recorded Lecture (skip from 58:30 to 1:04:30): Zoom Cloud Recording, YouTube
• Lecture 11 code, Lecture Slides
• Homework 6 Completion
• Homework 5 Graded solution key: .RMD, HTML
• May 6
• Topics: polynomial terms for linear regression, prediction with train/test split, extrapolation
• Recorded Lecture: Zoom Cloud Recording, YouTube
• Lecture 12 code
• Homework 6 Graded
• Homework 6 Completion solution key

Week 7

• May 11
• Topics: Cross-Validation, Binary Prediction with Logistic Regression
• Recorded Lecture (skip from minute 32 to minute 42). Lecture code was slightly wrong but the posted version has been fixed. Look at posted code and make sure you understand the idea of repeating the train/test split and the variation of the predictions across those splits): Zoom Cloud Recording, YouTube
• Lecture 13 code, Lecture Slides, Congressional voting data
• No completion HW this week
• May 13
• Topics: Logistic Regression, Senate Voting Data
• Recorded Lecture: Zoom Cloud Recording, YouTube
• Lecture 14 code, Lecture Slides
• Homework 7 Graded
• Homework 6 Graded solution key: .RMD, HTML

Week 8

• May 18
• Topics: tidyverse and ggplot, overview of final project
• Recorded Lecture: Zoom Cloud Recording, YouTube
• Lecture 15 code
• Homework 8 Completion
• May 20
• Topics: ggplot and HW 8 Completion office hours
• Recorded Lecture: Zoom Cloud Recording, YouTube
• Lecture 16 code
• Homework 8 Graded (short, yay!)
• Homework 7 Graded solution key: .RMD, HTML

Week 9

• May 27
• Strings (yay?!)
• Recorded Lecture: Zoom Cloud Recording, YouTube
• Lecture 17 code
• Quora Data Subset
• Homework 9 Graded (get points for starting your project!)
• Homework 8 Graded solution key: .RMD, HTML
• Final Project

Week 10

• June 1
• Algorithmic Fairness and Discrimination
• Recorded Lecture: Zoom Cloud Recording, YouTube
• Lecture 18 code, Lecture 18 slides
• No completion homework this week.
• June 3
• Algorithmic Fairness and Discrimination, continued
• Recorded Lecture: Zoom Cloud Recording, YouTube
• Same lecture code and slides as Monday.
• No graded homework this week.
• Homework 9 Graded solution key: .RMD, HTML