Syllabus

Data and Computing Fundamentals .

Spring 2013

Danny Kaplan and Libby Shoop, instructors

Assignment Discussion Forum on Moodle.

To update the DCF software: copy and paste these commands into your R console.

require(devtools)
install_url("http://mosaic-web.org/go/Repository/DannyKaplan/DCF_0.13.tar.gz")
require(DCF)

Resources

Software

R and RStudio. You will likely find it convenient to have an account on the server. If you don't already have one, you can request one here.

RPubs: a site for distributing documents on the web. You'll hand in documents by cutting-and-pasting the URL into Moodle.

• HELP: A student volunteer is needed to make a video demonstrating this.

R Markdown Introduction Template

R Syntax Introduction Video

R Chunks in R Markdown Introduction

Making Graphics

• Scatter plots
• Bar plots

Week 1

Topics:

• Welcome Notes
• Introduction to R and R/Markdown.
• The structure of data tables
• Scatter plots

In-Class

• R Syntax Notes
• Country-by-country size and population data

Out of Class

• Body shape and diabetes

Background

• A cartoon about logarithms

To Hand in

Week 2

Topics

• Creating Small Data with a Spreadsheet
• Subsets
• Groupwise analysis
• Bar Plots

In Class

• Debriefing: Scatter Plots and Data Organization
• Introduction: Subsets, Grouping, Bar Plots
• Pre-populated math enrollment spreadsheet to copy, complete, publish, and read in to R.
  
• In-Class Data: Birds at Ordway
• After-Class Data: Voters

To Hand in

Week 3

Topics

• Data across many files: Gapminder
• Wide and Narrow Data
• Continuous to Categorical
• Drawing Maps

In-Class

• Gapminder files
• Operations on Narrow Data
• Continuous to Categorical
• Joining two similar data files
• Maps

To Hand in

Week 4

Topics

• Model Functions
• Uses for Join
• Data Cleaning

In-Class

• Functions, fits, and confidence intervals
• Uses for Join
• Crowd-sourcing data cleaning: Bird Species. The species name spreadsheet for editing. The link for reading in the editing file to R.

To Hand in

Week 5

Topics

Overview: From Two to Several

• Graphics: Parallel Coordinates
• Programming for Repeating
• Clustering: Position =>> Groups

To Hand in

Week 6

In Class

• A review activity: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau complaints. Activity Description
• Hierarchical Clustering
• Supervised Partitioning
• Dimension Reduction (to be added)

Topics

• Dendrograms and Hierarchical Clustering Notes
• Supervised Partitioning Notes
• After-class notes: Toward a strategy of table design draft

To Hand in

Week 7

Topics

• Mining information from words: a radio report on mapping emotions across the years.
• GoogleNgrams
• Regular expressions

To Hand in

Notes for future development

Revision ideas