American University
This is a complementary course hub. Canvas is the official site for this semester.
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All courses
Syllabus
Class meetings
Wednesday class meetings, 5:30–8:00 PM. Canvas is official for submissions and any date changes.
| Week |
Date |
Topic |
Notes |
| 1 |
September 2 |
R, RStudio, and tidyverse basics |
|
| 2 |
September 9 |
Pipes, functions, and scripts |
Homework 1 due September 13 |
| 3 |
September 16 |
ggplot2 |
|
| 4 |
September 23 |
dplyr: rows, columns, and groups |
Quiz 1 |
| 5 |
September 30 |
dplyr: rowwise, across, and case_when |
|
| 6 |
October 7 |
readr and exploratory data analysis |
|
| 7 |
October 14 |
tidyr |
Midterm 1 |
| 8 |
October 21 |
Joins and databases |
|
| 9 |
October 28 |
Strings and regular expressions |
Quiz 2 |
| 10 |
November 4 |
Factors and dates |
|
| 11 |
November 11 |
Statistics in R |
Midterm 2 |
| 12 |
November 18 |
R Markdown presentations |
Initial project presentation |
|
November 25 |
No class (Thanksgiving) |
|
| 13 |
December 2 |
R Markdown: chunks, tables, and citations |
Quiz 3 |
| 14 |
December 9 |
Iteration, purrr, and wrap-up |
Final project presentations |
Weekly materials
Open a week for its lectures, labs, readings, and discussion prompts.
Canvas remains the official list of required reading.
| Week |
Date |
Topic |
| 1 |
September 2 |
R, RStudio, and tidyverse basics |
| 2 |
September 9 |
Pipes, functions, and scripts |
| 3 |
September 16 |
ggplot2 |
| 4 |
September 23 |
dplyr: rows, columns, and groups |
| 5 |
September 30 |
dplyr: rowwise, across, and case_when |
| 6 |
October 7 |
readr and exploratory data analysis |
| 7 |
October 14 |
tidyr |
| 8 |
October 21 |
Joins and databases |
| 9 |
October 28 |
Strings and regular expressions |
| 10 |
November 4 |
Factors and dates |
| 11 |
November 11 |
Statistics in R |
| 12 |
November 18 |
R Markdown presentations |
| 13 |
December 2 |
R Markdown: chunks, tables, and citations |
| 14 |
December 9 |
Iteration, purrr, and wrap-up |
Project
Sample quizzes and exams
Data
| Dataset |
Files |
| Capital trips |
capital_trips_sample.csv |
| Estate |
estate.csv |
| Flowers |
flowers1.csv,
flowers2.csv
|
| Hate crimes |
hate_crimes1.csv,
hate_crimes_1a.csv,
hate_crimes2.csv,
hate_crimes3.csv,
hate_crimes4.csv,
hate_crimes4a.csv,
hate_crimes4b.csv,
hate_crimes5.csv,
hate_crimes6.csv,
hate_crimes7.csv
|
| Meteorite landings |
meteorite_landings.csv |
| Monkey memory |
monkeymem.csv |
| Students |
students.csv |
| WMATA ridership |
wmata_ridership.csv |
| z-scores |
z_scores.csv |
| Bibliography |
test_rmd_file.bib |
Resources
