The full syllabus is available on Canvas.

Course Schedule:

Date Topic Notes
Week 1-2 Collaborative working environment:
Git, GitHub, and R Markdown
Aug 26
Course intro & syllabus
Aug 28
R Basics | Setting up R and Rstudio | Collaborations - test case | data: csv, Codebook
Sep 4
Solution to test case (Rmd file) | RMarkdown
Week 3 - 4 Getting to know R
Sep 9
Solution to test case (Rmd file) | git and github
Sep 11
Introduction to R | code from class
Sep 16
graphics in ggplot2 | code from class
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 8-9 Tidying data
Week 10 Midterm Exam
Week 11-12 Time, Date and Space
Weeks 13 Web Scraping
Week 14 Polishing plots
Prep & Finals Week Presentations