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== 9/29 Agenda ==
== 9/29 Agenda ==
* Reminders:  
* Reminders: Research Project Plan + Dataset Identification
** Research Project Plan + Dataset Identification (due next Friday 10/9)
** If you're having trouble getting started, check out the many suggested resources in the Wiki!
** If you're having trouble getting started, check out the many suggested resources in the Wiki
** Feel free to use OH / Discord to chat with the teaching team about these!
** Feel free to use OH / Discord to chat with the teaching team about these
 
 
* Managing R and RStudio
* Managing R and RStudio
** Lost in space: workspaces, environments, working directories, projects, notebooks, scripts, and consoles oh my!
 
** Rmarkdown, code chunks, and knitting
* Code, functions, concepts
* Code, functions, concepts
** Data import tips
 
** Writing "clean" and "elegant" code
** Vectorized functions (yes, these are confusing)
** Selection/subsets/masks
* Statistical Questions
* Statistical Questions
** When are mean/sd appropriate? How to know?
** Interpreting summary stats of a transformed variable
* Session feedback!


== 10/1 session plan ==


* Checking in
* Do session feedback!
** Working groups
** Solution sets
** Research project and dataset ideas
* Ch 3 exercises and questions
** 3.28: Birthdays!
** 3.34 The standard deviation of an expected value (what is it?)
** 3.38 Comparing observed vs. expected proportions (rationale, basis, implications)
* Preamble to next Tuesday:
** Problem set involves more and more "real" work
** Emotional contagion on Facebook paper
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