Spring 2013
Tuesday & Thursday. 9:30–10:50. Snedecor 1105
Heike Hofmann, hofmann@iastate.edu.
Office hours: T/TR after class, Snedecor 2413
Lendie Follett, lfollett@iastate.edu.
Office hour: W 12-1, Snedecor 2406
Course syllabus describing objectives, software used, modules and assessment.
| Date | Lecture and Resources | Homework | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data collection and organisation with Excel | |||
| 15 Jan | Introduction and excel basics | ||
| 17 Jan | Data collection | Week 1, due 24 Jan. | |
| 22 Jan | Organizing Data | ||
| 24 Jan | Summarizing and exploring data | Week 2, due 31 Jan. | |
| 29 Jan | Numeric and Visual Data Summaries | ||
| 31 Jan | Graphics in Excel | Project I, due 5 Feb/19 Feb. | |
| Introduction to R through graphics | |||
| 5 Feb | Introduction to R | ||
| 7 Feb | Draft project review, Project Work | Week 4, due 14 Feb. | |
| 12 Feb | Graphics in R | ||
| 14 Feb | Subsetting Data | Week 5, due 26 Feb. | |
| 19 Feb | Factors in R | ||
| 21 Feb | Reshaping Data: Melt and Cast | ||
| Programming in R | |||
| 26 Feb | Loops, Conditions & Functions | Project 2, due Mar 5/Apr 2. | |
| 28 Feb | Loops & Functions | Week 7, due 7 Mar | |
| 5 Mar | Functions, data aggregation with the plyr package | ||
| 7 Mar | Practicising ddply | Week 8, due Mar 14. | |
| Advanced Graphics in R | |||
| 12 Mar | Maps in R, Time Series | ||
| 14 Mar | Time series, project work | No homework! | |
| 19/21 Mar | Spring break | ||
| 26 Mar | Interactive Graphics with ggobi | ||
| 28 Mar | Clustering in R and ggobi | Week 11, due 4 Apr | |
| Simulation | |||
| 2 Apr | Simulation | Project 3, due 9 Apr/23 Apr/10 May. | |
| 4 Apr | More on Simulation | Week 12, due 11 Apr | |
| 9 Apr | Buffon's Needle: Simulating Pi | ||
| SAS, the industry standard | |||
| 11 Apr | SAS Enterprise Guide | ||
| 16 Apr | First Programming Steps in SAS | abstract submission | |
| Dealing with very large data in R | |||
| 18 Apr | Databases and MySQL | ||
| 23 Apr | RMySQL and Joins | Project discussion/practice | |
| Project presentations | |||
| 25 Apr | Project presentations Feedback Form |
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| 30 Apr (dead week) |
Project presentations | ||
| 2 May (dead week) |
Project presentations | ||
| 9 May (finals week) Thurs 9:45-11:45 a.m. |
Project presentations | ||
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