Summer 2025 DS2020: Syllabus

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# Summer 2025 DS2020: Syllabus
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### Will Ju
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# Overview

- Instructor and TA Info
- Topics Covered
- Course Structure and Evaluation
- Final Project

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# Instructor and TA Info

- Will Ju: `wju@iastate.edu`
- Ben Moolman: `bmool24@iastate.edu`

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# Topics Covered

- `R`
- Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
- Data Manipulation
  - Data Cleaning
  - Data Transformation
  - `filter`/`join`/`group_by`/`arrange`
- Data Visualization
  - `ggplot2`
- Collaborative Environment and Tools
  - `git` and `GitHub`
- Making Reproducible Report
  - `R Markdown`
- Data Acquisition
  - Web Scraping Techniques

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# Course Structure and Evaluation

- Course Website: [https://ds202-at-isu.github.io/](https://ds202-at-isu.github.io/)
- Lecture Videos
  - New videos will be posted on Mondays
  - "Your Turn" - 10% 
- Assignment - 50% 
  - Homework Assignments
  - "Lab" Assignments / Extension of Lecture
- NO Midterm
- Final Project (40%)

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# Final Project

- [A good example from previous semester](https://github.com/BraedenCollings/Final-Project-DS202)
- Group Project
  - Max: 3 students
- Final Presentation Video
- Final Report