The full syllabus is available on Canvas.

Course Schedule:

Date Topic Notes
Week 1-2 Introduction: R and R Markdown
Jan 21
Course intro & syllabus
Jan 26
Introduction to R
Jan 28
RMarkdown
Week 3 - 4 Introduction: git, Github, and ggplot2
Week 5-6 Elements of the data pipeline: Filters, selectors and aggregation
Weeks 7 Elements of the data pipeline: Pulling data, summarising and communicating
Weeks 8 Tidying data
Weeks 9 Review Session
Week 10 Midterm Exam
Week 11-12 Time, Date and Space
Weeks 13 Web Scraping
Week 14 Polishing plots
Prep & Finals Week Presentations