STA 199: Introduction to Data Science and Statistical Thinking
This page contains an outline of the topics, content, and assignments for the semester. Note that this schedule will be updated as the semester progresses and the timeline of topics and assignments might be updated throughout the semester.
| Lectures and labs | Application exercises | Homework |
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| Lecture slides | Exercises | Questions |
| Lecture notes | Suggested answers | Model answers |
| Labs |
| WEEK | DATE | TOPIC | READINGS | VIDEOS | DUE | |
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| 1 | Mon, Aug 24 | Hello World and Hello STA 199! | Syllabus | |||
| Wed, Aug 26 | Meet the toolkit |
r4ds - intro ims - chp 1 |
R and Positron Quarto First data viz with UN Votes |
Getting to know you survey | 11:59 pm | ||
| Thu, Aug 27 | Lab 0: Mise en place | Lab 0 | End of lab | ||||
| 2 | Mon, Aug 31 | Grammar of data visualization |
r4ds - chp 1 ims - chp 4 |
Visualizing data Building a plot with ggplot2 Grammar of graphics First look at Palmer Penguins |
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| Wed, Sep 2 | Grammar of data transformation |
r4ds - chp 2 r4ds - chp 3.1-3.5 |
Grammar of data transformation Flights and pipes |
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| Thu, Sep 3 | Lab 1: What’s streaming around the world? | Lab 1 | End of lab | ||||
| 3 | Mon, Sep 7 | 🛠️ No lecture - Labor Day | ||||
| Wed, Sep 9 | Exploratory data analysis I | r4ds - chp 3.6-3.7 |
Visualizing and summarizing categorical data Visualizing and summarizing numerical data Visualizing and summarizing relationships Star Wars characters |
HW 1 | 11:59 pm | ||
| Thu, Sep 10 | Lab 2: Get in teams, then group_by()
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r4ds - chp 4 | Lab 2 | End of lab | |||
| 4 | Mon, Sep 14 | Exploratory data analysis II |
ims - chp 5 ims - chp 6 |
Diving deeper with Palmer Penguins | ||
| Wed, Sep 16 | Tidying data | r4ds - chp 5 |
Tidy data Tidying data Country populations over time |
HW 2 | 11:59 pm | ||
| Thu, Sep 17 | Lab 3: The one with all the pivoting | Lab 3 | End of lab | ||||
| 5 | Mon, Sep 21 | Joining data | r4ds - chp 19.1-19.3 |
Joining data Continent populations |
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| Wed, Sep 23 | Data types and classes | r4ds - chp 16 |
Data types Data classes That’s my type |
HW 3 | 11:59 pm | ||
| Thu, Sep 24 | Lab 4: JOINing the Olympic Gymnastics Committee Project: Team preferences |
Lab 4 | End of lab | ||||
| 6 | Mon, Sep 28 | Importing and recoding data |
r4ds - chp 7 r4ds - chp 17.1 - 17.3 |
Importing data Halving CO2 emissions Student survey |
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| Wed, Sep 30 | Web scraping a single page | r4ds - chp 24.1 - 24.6 |
Web scraping basics Scraping an eCommerce page |
HW 4 | 11:59 pm | ||
| Thu, Oct 1 | Project: Milestone 1 - Working collaboratively |
Merge conflicts Project description |
PM 1 | End of lab | |||
| 7 | Mon, Oct 5 | Exam 1 review | PE 1 | 11:59 pm | |||
| Wed, Oct 7 | Exam 1 | |||||
| Thu, Oct 8 | Project: Milestone 2 - Proposal | PM 2 | End of lab (Can turn in until 11:59 pm on Fri, Oct 9 without penalty) |
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| 8 | Mon, Oct 12 | 🍂 No Lecture - Fall Break | ||||
| Wed, Oct 14 | Web scraping many pages | r4ds - chp 25.1 - 25.2 |
Scraping many eCommerce pages Web scraping considerations |
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| Thu, Oct 15 | Project: Milestone 3 - Improve & progress I | Tidyverse style guide - Chp 1-5 | PM 3 | End of lab (Optional) Midterm course eval | 11:59 pm |
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| 9 | Mon, Oct 19 | Data science ethics | To be posted | To be posted | PE 2 | 11:59 pm | |
| Wed, Oct 21 | Linear regression with a single predictor | To be posted | To be posted | |||
| Thu, Oct 22 | Project: Milestones 4 + 5 - Peer review + Improve & progress II | To be posted | To be posted | PM 4 + 5 | End of lab | ||
| 10 | Mon, Oct 26 | Linear regression with multiple predictors | To be posted | To be posted | PE 3 | 11:59 pm | |
| Wed, Oct 28 | Model selection and overfitting | To be posted | To be posted | HW 5 | 11:59 pm | ||
| Thu, Oct 29 | Lab 5: Linear models | To be posted | To be posted | Lab 5 | End of lab | ||
| 11 | Mon, Nov 2 | Developing and communicating data science results | To be posted | To be posted | ||
| Wed, Nov 4 | Logistic regression | To be posted | To be posted | |||
| Thu, Nov 5 | Project: Milestone 6 - Presentation | To be posted | To be posted | PM 6 | Start of lab | ||
| 12 | Mon, Nov 9 | Spending your data | To be posted | To be posted | PE 4 | 11:59 pm | |
| Wed, Nov 11 | Evaluating models | To be posted | To be posted | HW 6 | 11:59 pm | ||
| Thu, Nov 12 | Lab 6: Logistic models | To be posted | To be posted | Lab 6 | End of lab | ||
| 13 | Mon, Nov 16 | Exam 2 review | To be posted | To be posted | ||
| Wed, Nov 18 | Exam 2 | |||||
| Thu, Nov 19 | Lab 7: Modeling overview | To be posted | To be posted | Lab 7 | End of lab | ||
| 14 | Mon, Nov 23 | Quantifying uncertainty with bootstrap intervals | To be posted | To be posted | ||
| Wed, Nov 25 | 🦃 No lecture - Thanksgiving | |||||
| Thu, Nov 26 | 🦃 No lab - Thanksgiving | |||||
| 15 | Mon, Nov 30 | Making decisions with randomization tests | To be posted | To be posted | ||
| Wed, Dec 2 | Looking further | To be posted | To be posted | HW 7 | 11:59 pm | ||
| Thu, Dec 3 | Lab 8: Inference | To be posted | To be posted | Lab 8 | End of lab | ||
| 16 | Mon, Dec 7 | Final review (time + location TBD) | ||||
| Thu, Dec 10 | Final exam (9 am - 12 pm) |