Week 0

Sep 22 -28

Getting Ready for STATS 6

Notes Links Due
Getting to Know the Course Website     Take time to go over the contents of this website, especially read the policies section. Do not forget to bookmark introdata.science.
Get a GitHub username Sep 26, 5:00 pm
Introduce Yourself to the Teaching Team The responses to this “quiz” will not be available to your classmates. The quiz is not timed. Sep 26, 5:00 pm
Get Your Tech Ready The responses to this “quiz” will help us make sure that you are ready for the first class in terms of your tech needs. The quiz is not timed but it will take about half an hour to an hour to complete all the tasks. Sep 26, 5:00 pm
Syllabus Quiz     Sep 26, 5:00 pm

Week 1

Sep 29 - Oct 5

Notes Links Due
Introduction to STATS 6 and the Toolkit     Welcome!!!
Reading Chapter 1
Reading Section 1.2
Describing Data with Numbers     Data Frames, Variables, and Descriptive Statistics
Reading Section 2.1
Homework 1: First Steps with Data     In Week 1 repo Oct 6, 9:25 am

Week 2

Oct 6 - 12

Notes Links Due
Data Representations: Part I     Data Visualization
Reading Chapter 3
Data Representations: Part II     Accessible Visualizations, Data Verbalization, Sonification, and Tactualization
Homework 2: Data Representations     In Week 2 repo Oct 13, 9:25 am

Week 3

Oct 13 - 19

Notes Links Due
Data Wrangling: Part I     Pipe Operator, Subsetting Data Frames, Changing Variables
Reading Chapter 5
Data Wrangling: Part II     Aggregating Data and Data Joins
Reading Chapter 13
Homework 3: Data Wrangling     In Week 3 repo Oct 20, 9:25 am

Week 4

Oct 20 - 26

Notes Links Due
Good Workflow Practices for Reproducible Data Science    
Reading on Reproducibility by Roger Peng
Working with Strings, Factors, and Dates    
Reading Chapter 14, 15, and 16
No Homework but Project Proposal     In Week 4 repo Nov 5th at 5:00 pm

Week 5

Oct 27 - Nov 2

Notes Links Due
Web Scraping    
Midterm Policies   
Sample Midterm   
Sample Midterm Answers   
Midterm    In class Oct 29th at 9:30 - 10:50 am
Project proposal    Instructions in Week 4 repos Nov 5th at 5:00 pm

Week 6

Nov 3 - Nov 9

Notes Links Due
Foundations for Statistical Inference    
Introduction to Bayesian Inference: The Beta-Binomial Model    
Reading Sections 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Optional Reading Chapters 3 and 4
Homework 6: Bayesian Ideas     In Week 6 repo Nov 10, 9:25 am
Project proposal    Instructions in Week 4 repos Nov 5th at 5:00 pm Nov 7th at 5:00 pm

Week 7

Nov 10 - 16

Notes Links Due
Introduction to Bayesian Inference: Credible Intervals and Hyptohesis Testing    
Reading Section 8.2
Introduction to Frequentist Inference    
Reading Section 5.1
Homework 7: Bayesian Inference     In Week 7 repo Nov 17th at 9:25 am

Week 8

Nov 17 - Nov 23

TBD

Week 9

Nov 24 - Nov 30

TBD

Week 10

Dec 1 - Dec 7

TBD

Final Week

Dec 8 - Dec 12

TBD