Course schedule by week

The following table provides links to all course assignments.

Each week will include:

  • Preparation: engage with lecture videos in Perusall by class time Tuesday (4pm)
  • Application Exercise: in-class together on Tuesdays, due at end of class (5:15pm)
  • Quiz: at the beginning of class on Thursdays
  • Lab: in-class together on Thursdays, due class-time the following Thursday (4pm)
  • Reading Annotations: on your own, due Thursdays at class-time (4pm)

This course includes a final project, with scaffolded deadlines throughout the semester. We will have several in-class work sessions, but you are expected to complete a majority of the project with your team outside of class.

Note that this schedule may be updated as the semester progresses, with all changes documented here.

Prepare Slides Announcements Labs Project
Week 01 Jan 12 - 16 Welcome to STAT 4380!
Meet the toolkit - programming
Week 02 Jan 19 - 23 Data visualization intro
Variable types & visualization types
Week 03 Jan 26 - 30 Data wrangling 1a
Data Wrangling 1b
Week 04 Feb 2 - 6 Data wrangling II
Week 05 Feb 9 - 13 Data Wrangling III
Week 06 Feb 16 - 20 Data importing & cleaning
Week 07 Feb 23 - 27 Review / Projects
Week 08 Mar 9 - 13 Data Ethics
Week 09 Mar 16 - 20 Working with strings
Week 10 Mar 23 - 27 Working with strings cont’d
Week 11 Mar 30 - April 3 Project Storyboarding
Week 12 April 6 - 10 Web scraping
Week 13 April 13 - 17 Communicating Results
Week 14 April 20 - 24 Project Peer Review
Week 15 April 27 - May 1 Project Presentations