Week 1 - Doing Data Science
Time to dust off our data skills
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Tasks
- Complete the readings
- Visit the course on Google Classroom to join Posit Cloud
- Complete the Getting to know you survey
- Complete the assignments
Topic Intros
No. |
Title |
Slides |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Doing Data Science | ||
| 02 | Scientific Studies and Confounding | ||
| 03 | Simpson’s Paradox |
Class Activities
Activity |
Title |
Date |
|---|---|---|
| Topic Intro | Introduction to the course and doing data science | Tue, Jan 9 |
| Topic Intro | Scientific Studies and Confounding and Simpson’s Paradox | Wed, Jan 10 |
| Lab | Lab 00: Simpson’s Paradox | Fri, Jan 12 |
Assignments
Assignment |
Title |
Due |
|---|---|---|
| Due this week | ||
| S 00 | Syllabus add a question or comment | Sun, 14 Jan, 23:59 EST |
| Due next week | ||
| Lab 00 | Simpson’s Paradox | Thu, 18 Jan, 23:59 EST |
| HW 00 | College Majors | Fri, 19 Jan, 23:59 EST |
Readings
| 📄 | Course syllabus | Required |
| 📄 | Grading Contract | Required |
| 📖 | MDSR: Chp 6 - Professional Ethics | Required |
| 📖 | IMS::Sec 6.1 Case study: Effective communication of exploratory results | Required |
| 📖 | IMS::Sec 2.1 Study design | Required |
| 🖋 | Openscapes: GitHub for supporting, reusing, contributing, and failing safely | Optional |
| 🖋 | What is the Question? By Roger Peng and Jeffrey Leek | Optional |
Interactive R tutorials
For a refresher on data viz, working with data in R, and joins check out Posit Cloud recipes.
