Schedule

Schedule for DS002R, Foundations of Data Science in R, Pomona College, Fall 2024

Here’s your roadmap for the semester! Each day, follow the general process outlined below:

• Enjoy the notes / text

• Attend class, review the worksheet and solutions if you have any questions after working on it during class. Slides from class are linked below.

• Complete the Lab assignment ( html linked below), submit the assignment to GitHub before 10am the following class period.

• Discuss the reflection questions and ethics considerations (see the class notes) with your classmates and professor.

• The textbooks are Modern Data Science with R (MDSR), 3rd edition by Baumer, Kaplan, and Horton and R for Data Science (R4DS), 2nd edition by Wickham, Çetinkaya-Rundel, and Grolemund.

• Homework assignments are found at the GitHub course organization. Due dates are provided on each assignment (roughly every other week). See the course GitHub page for more information on how to find, complete, and submit assignments.

date	topic	class materials	due dates	resources
Week 1 8.26.24	intro + R + RStudio + GitHub	Introduction MDSR Prologue Why Git? + monsters Introduction WS 1 - DS project WS 2 - R syntax
Week 2 9.2.24	no class Mon Data Viz	R4DS Visualize graphics ggplot Data Viz WS 3 - Tufte	HW 1 - due 9.3
Week 3 9.9.24	Data Viz	R4DS Visualize graphics ggplot Data Viz Data Verbs WS 4 - ggplot	HW 2 - due 9.10 Quiz 1 9.11
Week 4 9.16.24	Data Wrangling	R4DS Transform wrangling Data Verbs Pivot + Join WS 5 - verbs WS 6 - joining	Project 1 - due 9.18
Week 5 9.23.24	Data Types	R4DS Factors R4DS Strings Text analysis Data Types WS 7 - strings	HW 3 - due 9.24 Quiz 2 9.25
Week 6 9.30.24	Regular Expressions	R4DS Regular expressions Regular expressions Regular expressions WS 8 - reg exp 1 WS 9 - reg exp 2	Project 2 - due 10.2
Week 7 10.7.24	functions + iteration	R4DS Fuctions R4DS Iteration Functions + Iteration functions + iteration WS 10 - functions	HW 4 - due 10.8 Quiz 3 10.9
Week 8 10.14.24	no class Mon code review + reprex	reproducible examples Tidyverse style guide Reproducible examples help me help you WS 11 - map
Week 9 10.21.24	iterations + simulations	MDSR Simulations Iterations Iterations WS 12 - probability simulation WS 13 - model simulation	HW 5 - due 10.22
Week 10 10.28.24	permutation tests	Permutation tests Permutation tests WS 14 - helper test	HW 6 - due 10.29 Quiz 4 10.30
Week 11 11.4.24	web scraping	R4DS Web scraping Web scraping Web scraping WS 15 - css selector WS 16 - rvest	Project 3 - due 11.6
Week 12 11.11.24	SQL	R4DS Databases MDSR Database querying SQL SQL DBMS SQL clauses WS 17 - sql database WS 18 - sql + R	HW 7 - due 11.12 Quiz 5 11.13
Week 13 11.18.24	SQL	R4DS Databases MDSR Database querying SQL joins SQL joins WS 19 - sql clauses WS 20 - sql joins
Week 14 11.25.24	Shiny no class Wed	Matering Shiny MDSR Interactive web apps with Shiny Shiny Shiny WS 21 - shiny	Project 4 - due Tuesday 11.26
Week 15 12.2.24		Fin	Quiz 6 12.4	presentations (?) 12.6
Week 16 12.9.24			Project 5 - due 12.9 + presentations (?)