Schedule

Schedule for DS002R, Foundations of Data Science in R, Pomona College, Spring 2025

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.

• 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 1.22.25	intro + R + RStudio + GitHub	Introduction MDSR Prologue Why Git? + monsters Introduction WS 1 - DS project		NSSD - Compromised Shoe Situation
Week 2 1.27.25	Data Viz	R4DS Visualize graphics ggplot Data Viz WS 2 - R WS 3 - Tufte	HW 1 - due 1.30.25 (Thursday!)	Tufte. 1997. Visual and Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions
Week 3 2.3.25	Data Viz	R4DS Visualize graphics ggplot Data Viz Data Verbs WS 4 - ggplot WS 5 - Verbs	HW 2 - due 2.3.25 (Monday going forward)
Week 4 2.10.25	Data Wrangling	R4DS Transform wrangling Data Verbs Pivot + Join WS 6 - Joining	HW 3 - due 2.10.25 Quiz 1 2.12.25
Week 5 2.17.25	Data Types	R4DS Factors R4DS Strings Text analysis Data Types WS 7 - String Variables WS 8 - Factor Variables	Project 1 - due 2.19.25
Week 6 2.24.25	Regular Expressions	R4DS Regular expressions Regular expressions Regular expressions WS 9 - Regular Expressions	HW 4 - due 2.25.25 (Tuesday going forward) Quiz 2 2.26.25
Week 7 3.3.25	functions + iteration	R4DS Fuctions R4DS Iteration Functions + Iteration functions + iteration WS 10 - Functions WS 11 - map	Project 2 - due 3.5.25
Week 8 3.10.25	code review + reprex	reproducible examples Tidyverse style guide Reproducible examples help me help you WS 12 - help me help you WS 13 - probability sim	HW 5 - due 3.11.25
3.17.25	Spring Break
Week 9 3.24.25	iterations + simulations	MDSR Simulations Iterations Iterations WS 14 - model simulation WS 15 - helper & hinderer	HW 6 - due 3.25.25 Quiz 3 3.26.25
Week 10 3.31.25	permutation tests	Permutation tests Permutation tests WS 16 - permutation test WS 17 - ethics	Project 3 - due 4.2.25
Week 11 4.7.25	web scraping	R4DS Web scraping Web scraping Web scraping	HW 7 - due 4.8.25 Quiz 4 4.9.25
Week 12 4.14.25	SQL	R4DS Databases MDSR Database querying SQL SQL DBMS SQL clauses	Project 4 - due 4.16.25
Week 13 4.21.25	SQL	R4DS Databases MDSR Database querying SQL joins SQL joins	HW 8 - due 4.22.25 Quiz 5 4.23.25
Week 14 4.28.25	Shiny	Matering Shiny MDSR Interactive web apps with Shiny Shiny Shiny	Project 5 - due 4.30.25
Week 15 5.5.25		Fin	Quiz 6 5.7.25	presentations (?) 5.9.25
Week 16 5.13.25			Project 6 - due 5.13.25 + presentations (?)