Statistical Computing in R

This page contains an outline of the topics, content, and assignments for the quarter. Note that this schedule will be updated as the quarter progresses, with all changes documented here.

Week	Date	Topic & Preview Activities	Lecture Slides	Practice Activity	Lab & Challenge	Portfolio
0	Mon, 9/23	Course Set-up
1	Tues, 9/24	Intro to R & RStudio Intro to Quarto	Welcome to STAT 331 & Intro to R	Broken Circles Group Warm-up Creating Pair Programming Norms Data Cleaning, Visualization Puzzle
	Thurs, 9/26	Intro to Version Control	Intro to Quarto & Version Control		Lab 1 & Challenge 1 Instructions Link to Assignment on GitHub Classroom (due 9/29)
2	Tuesday, 10/1	Data Visualization with ggplot2 Data Import & R Projects	Basics of Graphics	Look for email from Posit Cloud to access PA2
	Thurs, 10/3		Tidy Data, Importing Data & More Advanced Graphics	PA 2 Due by 12pm	Lab 2 Instructions Challenge 2 Instructions Link to Assignment on GitHub Classroom
	Sun, 10/6				Lab 2 & Challenge 2 Due by 11:59pm
3	Tues, 10/8	Data Wrangling with dplyr	Data Wrangling with dplyr	Look for email from Posit Cloud to access PA3
	Thurs, 10/10		Extending Data Wrangling Verbs	PA3 Due by 12pm	Lab 3 Instructions Challenge 3 Instructions Link to Assignment on GitHub Classroom
	Sunday, 10/13				Lab 3 & Challenge 3 Due by 11:59pm Lab 2 Peer Code Review Due (Guidelines)
4	Tues, 10/15	Data Joins and Transformations with tidyr	Data Joins + Pivots	Look for email from Posit Cloud to access PA4
	Thurs, 10/17	Working with Categorical Variables	Extending Joins, Factors, Clean Variable Names	PA4 Due by 12pm	Lab 4 Instructions Link to Assignmenton GitHub Classroom Repository
	Sun, 10/20				Lab 4 & Challenge 4 Due by 11:59pm Lab 3 Peer Code Review Due (Guidelines)
5	Tues, 10/22	Working with Strings	Using stringr to Work with Strings	Look for email from Posit Cloud to access PA5
	Thurs, 10/24	Working with Dates	Using lubridate to Work with Dates	PA5 Due by 12pm	Lab 5 Instructions Link to GitHub Repository
	Sun, 10/27				Lab 5 & Challenge 5 Due by 11:59pm Lab 4 Peer Code Review Due (Guidelines)
6	Tues, 10/29	Portfolio Week!	Tips for Starting Your Portfolio			Midterm Portfolio Targets & Grade Expectations
	Thurs, 10/31	Portfolio Week!				Portfolio Instructions
	Sun, 11/3				Lab 5 Peer Code Review Due (Guidelines)	Midterm Portfolio Due
7	Tues, 11/5	Writing your own simple (vector) functions	Writing Vector Functions
	Thurs, 11/7	Writing your own dataframe functions			Lab 7 Instructions Challenge 7 Instructions Link to GitHub Repository
	Sun, 11/10				Lab 7 & Challenge 7 Due by 11:59pm
8	Tues, 11/12	Introduction to Iteration	Introduction to Iteration
	Thurs, 11/14		Cool Plots & Searching for Efficiency		Lab 8 Instructions Link to GitHub Repository
	Sun, 11/17				Lab 8 & Challenge 8 Due by 11:59pm Lab 7 Peer Code Review Due (Guidelines)
9	Tues, 11/19	Simulating Data	Simulating Data in R
	Thurs, 11/21				Lab 9 Instructions Challenge 9 Instructions
	Sun, 11/24				Lab 9 & Challenge 9 Due by 11:59pm Lab 8 Peer Code Review Due (Guidelines)
10	Fall Break
11	Tues, 12/3	Intro to Webscraping
	Thurs, 12/5	Portfolio Party			Lab 9 Peer Code Review Due (Guidelines)
	Sat, 12/7					Final Portfolio Due
Finals Week	Mon, 12/9, 10:10am - 1pm	10-minute Portfolio Conferences