STA 199: Introduction to Data Science & Statistical Thinking
This page contains an outline of the topics, content, and assignments for the semester! Entries for future dates are tentative; the timeline of topics, assignments, and due dates might be changed throughout the session at the instructorβs discretion. All material changes will be communicated with the students in a timely manner.
| WEEK | DATE | TOPIC | MATERIALS | DUE | PREPARE |
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| 1 | Wed, May 13 | Welcome | π₯οΈ slides 00 β¨οΈ ae 00 |
GitHub username - End of Lecture | |
| Thu, May 14 | Lab 0 | π» lab 0 | Lab 0 - End of Lab | ||
| Thu, May 14 | Meet the Toolkit | π₯οΈ slides 01 ποΈ notes 01 β¨οΈ ae 01 |
π r4ds - intro π ims - chp 1 π₯ Meet the toolkit :: R and RStudio π₯ Meet the toolkit :: Quarto |
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| Fri, May 15 | Grammar of Data Visualization | π₯οΈ slides 02 ποΈ notes 02 β¨οΈ ae 02 |
π r4ds - chp 1 π ims - chp 4 |
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| 2 | Mon, May 18 | Grammar of Data Transformation | π₯οΈ slides 03 ποΈ notes 03 β¨οΈ ae 03 β ae 03 |
π r4ds - chp 2 π r4ds - chp 3.1-3.5 π₯ Grammar of data transformation π₯ Code along :: Flights and pipes |
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| Mon, May 18 | Lab 1 | π» lab 1 | π r4ds - chp 2 π ims - chp 5 |
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| Tue, May 19 | Exploratory Data Analysis I | π₯οΈ slides 04 ποΈ notes 04 β¨οΈ ae 04 |
π r4ds - chp 3.6-3.7 π₯ Visualizing and summarizing categorical data π₯ Visualizing and summarizing numerical data π₯ Visualizing and summarizing relationships π₯ Code along :: Star Wars characters |
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| Wed, May 20 | Exploratory Data Analysis II | π₯οΈ slides 05 ποΈ notes 05 β¨οΈ ae 05 |
Lab 1 - 11:59PM ET | π ims - chp 5 π ims - chp 6 π₯ Code along :: Diving deeper with Palmer Penguins |
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| Thu, May 21 | Tidying Data | π r4ds - chp 5 π ims - chp 6 |
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| Thu, May 21 | Lab 2 | π r4ds - chp 4 π₯ Tidy data π₯ Tidying data π₯ Code Along: Population over time |
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| Fri, May 22 | Joining Data | π₯ Joining data π₯ Code along :: Continent populations π r4ds - chp 19.1-19.3 |
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| 3 | Mon, May 25 | NO CLASS - Memorial Day | |||
| Tue, May 26 | Data Types and Classes | π₯ Data types π₯ Data classes π₯ Code along :: Thatβs my type π r4ds - chp 16 |
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| Wed, May 27 | Importing and Recoding Data | Lab 2 - 11:59PM ET | π₯ Importing data π₯ Code along :: Halving CO2 emissions π₯ Code along :: Student survey π r4ds - chp 7 π r4ds - chp 17.1 - 17.3 |
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| Thu, May 28 | More Practice + Midterm Review | ||||
| Thu, May 28 | Lab 3 | ||||
| Fri, May 29 | Data Ethics + Midterm Review | π mdsr - chp 8 π How to make a racist AI in R without really trying π₯ Alberto Cairo - How charts lie π₯ Joy Buolamwini - How Iβm fighting bias in algorithms |
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| Sun, May 31 | Lab 3 - 11:59PM ET | ||||
| 4 | Mon, Jun 1 | Midterm (lecture + lab sessions) | |||
| Tue, Jun 2 | Project Milestone 1 - Collaboration | Project Milestone 1 - 12:30PM ET | |||
| Wed, Jun 3 | The Language of Models | π₯ The language of models π ims - chp 7.1 π₯ Fitting and interpreting models π₯ Modeling nonlinear relationships |
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| Thu, Jun 4 | Simple Linear Regression | π₯ Linear regression with a categorical predictor π₯ Outliers in linear regression π₯ Code along :: Modeling fish π ims - chp 7.2 |
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| Thu, Jun 4 | Project Milestone 2 - Proposals | ||||
| Fri, Jun 5 | Multiple Linear Regression I | π₯ Linear regression with multiple predictors π₯ Main and interaction effects π ims - chp 8.1-8.2 π ims - chp 8.3-8.5 |
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| Sun, Jun 7 | Project Milestone 2 - 11:59PM ET | ||||
| 5 | Mon, Jun 8 | Multiple Linear Regression II | π₯ Code along :: Modeling interest rates | ||
| Mon, Jun 8 | Lab 4 | ||||
| Tue, Jun 9 | Linear Regression Diagnostics | TBU | |||
| Wed, Jun 10 | Logistic Regression I | Lab 4 - 11:59PM ET |
π₯ Logistic regression π₯ Code along :: Building a spam filter π ims - chp 9 |
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| Thu, Jun 11 | Logistic Regression II | π₯ Clasification and decision errors π₯ Overfitting and spending your data |
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| Thu, Jun 11 | Lab 5 | ||||
| Fri, Jun 12 | Interval Estimation | Project Milestone 3 - 11:59PM ET | π₯ Quantifying uncertainty π₯ Bootstrapping π₯ Code along :: Bootstrapping Duke Forest houses π ims - chp 11 π ims - chp 12 |
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| Sun, Jun 14 | Lab 5 - 11:59PM ET |
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| 6 | Mon, Jun 15 | Hypothesis Testing | π₯ Hypothesis testing π ims - chp 11 |
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| Mon, Jun 15 | Project Milestone 4 - Peer Review | Project Milestone 4 - 12:30PM ET | |||
| Tue, Jun 16 | More Inference | ||||
| Wed, Jun 17 | More Inference | ||||
| Thu, Jun 18 | Special Topic | ||||
| Thu, Jun 18 | Lab 6 | ||||
| Fri, Jun 19 | NO CLASS - Juneteenth | ||||
| Sun, Jun 21 | Lab 6 - 11:59pm ET | ||||
| 7 | Mon, Jun 22 | Project Milestone 5 - Presentations + Final Review | Project - 9:30 AM | ||
| Mon, Jun 22 | Final Review | ||||
| Wed, Jun 24 | FINAL EXAM (9am - 12pm) |