This is an introductory statistical computing course based on the R programming language. Topics covered include data wrangling, data visualization, basics of programming in R, and basics of statistical modeling.
- Textbook: We will use R for Data Science by Grolemund and Wickham. It is available both as a printed book and as an online resource.
- Canvas: You should access the Canvas class page for this course frequently. It will let you access important announcements, homework assignments, and exams.
- Binder: All lecture notebooks can be accessed by clicking the button below
Name: Ambuj Tewari
Office Hours: Via Zoom, Mon thru Thu, 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm ET (see canvas for Zoom link). Will also be answering questions on slack at various times during the week.
Email: tewaria@umich.edu
Name: Ryan Duncan
Lab Webpage: https://ryandun.github.io/stats306lab3/ (also has office hours info)
Email: ryandun@umich.edu
Name: Holly Palmer
Lab Webpage: https://sites.google.com/umich.edu/stat306-005/ (also has office hours info)
Email: palmerh@umich.edu
Name: Jing Ouyang
Lab Webpage: https://jingoystat.github.io/ (also has office hours info)
Email: jingoy@umich.edu
Name: Ariel Polani
Lab Webpage: https://ariel-polani.github.io/STATS306_W21/ (also has office hours info)
Email: apolani@umich.edu
The final grade in the course will be determined by your scores in homework, a midterm exam, and a final exam using the weights given below.
- Homeworks (30%) Note: your lowest homework score will be dropped when calculating the final course grade
- Midterm Exam (30%)
- Final Exam (40%)
Late submissions will not be accepted unless there is a documented health or family emergency.
Final grade in this course grading will be awarded using the grading scheme below.
- 99-100: A+
- 95-98.9: A
- 90-94.9: A-
- 85-89.9: B+
- 80-84.9: B
- 75-79.9: B-
- 70-74.9: C+
- 65-69.9: C
- 60-64.9: C-
- 0-59.9: D+ or below
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| Lecture No. | Date | Topic | Reading Assignment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 00 | Jan 20 | Introduction | Chapter 1 |
| 01 | Jan 25 | Data Visualization (Aesthetic Mappings, Scatter Plots) | Section 3.1-3.4 |
| 02 | Jan 27 | Data Visualization (Facets, Geometric Objects) | Section 3.5-3.6 |
| 03 | Feb 01 | Data Visualization (Statistical Transformations, Position Adjustments, Coordinates) | Section 3.7-3.10 |
| 04 | Feb 03 | Data Transformation (filter, arrange, select) | Chapter 4, Section 5.1-5.4 |
| 05 | Feb 08 | Data Transformation (mutate) | Section 5.5 |
| 06 | Feb 10 | Data Transformation (summarize, pipes) | Section 5.6, Chapter 18 |
| 07 | Feb 15 | EDA (Visualizing Distributions) | Section 7.1-7.2, Section 7.3.1 |
| 08 | Feb 17 | EDA (Typical and Unusual Values, Missing Values) | Section 7.3.2-7.3.3, Section 7.4 |
| -- | Feb 22 | Well-being break | |
| -- | Feb 24 | Well-being break | |
| 09 | Mar 01 | EDA (Covariation) | Section 7.5, Section 7.7 |
| 10 | Mar 03 | Tibbles and Data Import | Section 10.1-10.4, Section 11.1-11.2, Section 11.5 |
| 11 | -- | CANCELLED | |
| -- | Mar 08 | Midterm Exam (due on Mar 11) | |
| 12 | Mar 10 | Tidy Data, Pivoting | Section 12.1-12.3 |
| 13 | Mar 15 | Separate and Unite, Missing Values | Section 12.4-12.5 |
| 14 | Mar 17 | String Basics | Section 14.1-14.2 |
| 15 | Mar 22 | Regular Expressions (Basics, Anchors, Character Classes, Alternatives) | Section 14.3.1-14.3.3 |
| 16 | Mar 24 | Regular Expressions (Repetition, Grouping, Detecting, Extracting) | Section 14.3.4-14.3.5, Section 14.4.1-14.4.2 |
| 17 | Mar 29 | More Regular Expression Tools, stringi package | Section 14.4.3-14.4.6, Section 14.7 |
| 18 | Mar 31 | Functions | Section 19.1-19.6 |
| 19 | Apr 05 | Vectors | Section 20.1-20.5 |
| 20 | Apr 07 | Iteration | Section 21.1-21.5 |
| 21 | Apr 12 | A Simple Model | Section 23.1-23.2 |
| -- | Apr 14 | Well-being break | |
| -- | Apr 19 | Well-being break | |
| -- | Apr 21 | Final Exam (due on Apr 28) |