2015-09-24 NOTE: This is still evolving. But it gives a good sense of what we’ll cover and approximately when.

STAT 545A

date notes
sep-08 tues cm001: Intro to course; S/W install; acct sign-ups
sep-10 thurs cm002: Deep Thoughts about data analytic work; intro to R and RStudio
sep-15 tues cm003: Git(Hub) and (R) Markdown crash course
sep-17 thurs cm004: Care and feeding of data (data.frames, actually)
sep-22 tues cm005: Intro to ggplot2
sep-24 thurs cm006: R Markdown
sep-29 tues cm007: dplyr: single table verbs, Basic flavors of R objects
oct-01 thurs cm008: dplyr: joins, Basic flavors of R objects
oct-06 tues cm009: Split-Apply-Combine, Writing your own R functions
oct-08 thurs cm010: Split-Apply-Combine, Writing your own R functions
oct-13 tues cm011: Tidy data and reshaping
oct-15 thurs cm012: Be the boss of your factors
oct-20 tues cm013: Effective graphs
oct-22 thurs cm014: Practical graphing tips

STAT 547M

date notes
oct-27 tues cm101: Getting data out of R (and back in)
oct-29 thurs cm102: Regular expressions and character data
nov-03 tues cm103: Data cleaning
nov-05 thurs cm104: TBA
nov-10 tues cm105: Task automation and pipelines, GNU Make
nov-12 thurs cm106: ditto
nov-17 tues cm107: Build your first R package
nov-19 thurs cm108: ditto
nov-24 tues cm109: Build your first Shiny app
nov-26 thurs cm110: ditto
dec-01 tues cm111: Get data from the web
dec-03 thurs cm112: ditto