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== 9/29 Agenda == | == 9/29 Agenda == | ||
* Reminders: Research Project Plan + Dataset Identification | * Reminders: | ||
** If you're having trouble getting started, check out the many suggested resources in the Wiki | ** Research Project Plan + Dataset Identification (due next Friday 10/9) | ||
** Feel free to use OH / Discord to chat with the teaching team about these | ** 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 | |||
* 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 | |||
** When are mean/sd appropriate? How to know? | |||
** Interpreting summary stats of a transformed variable | |||
* Session feedback! | |||
== 10/1 session plan == | |||
* | * Checking in | ||
** 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 |
Latest revision as of 19:59, 1 October 2020
9/29 Agenda[edit]
- Reminders:
- 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
- Feel free to use OH / Discord to chat with the teaching team about these
- 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
- Data import tips
- Writing "clean" and "elegant" code
- Vectorized functions (yes, these are confusing)
- Selection/subsets/masks
- Statistical Questions
- When are mean/sd appropriate? How to know?
- Interpreting summary stats of a transformed variable
- Session feedback!
10/1 session plan[edit]
- Checking in
- 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