Course schedule for ECON 122 (F19)

Michael Gelman (mgelman@cmc.edu), Claremont McKenna College

Textbook: Modern Data Science with R (1st edition)

• Syllabus
• GitHub reference
• Additional free resource: R for Data Science

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Assignments due

• Test assignment (due 09/05)
  • Solutions .Rmd .md
• Problem Set 1 (due 09/16)

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Week 1 (09/03)

Tuesday (intro, GitHub, test assignment)

• before class:
  • Try to set up R, RStudio, Git, GitHub account (See GitHub reference)
• in class:
  • day 1 slides: .Rmd .html
  • test assignment

Thursday (reproducibility, R Markdown)

• before class:
  • complete test assignment and push both .rmd and .md files to GitHub.
  • read MDSR Chapter 1 and Appendix D
  • Start looking at PS 1
• in class:
  • day 2 slides: .Rmd .html
  • day 2 activity: .Rmd .md

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Week 2 (09/10)

Tuesday (R objects, R functions)

• before class:
  • read MDSR Appendix sections B.4, B.5 and C.2
  • read Grolemund/Wickham sections 20.2 Vector Basics, 20.3 Types of Vectors (focus on logical, numeric), and 20.5 Lists
• in class:
  • day 3 slides .Rmd .html
  • day 3 activity: .Rmd .md

Thursday (ggplot2 graphics)

• before class:
  • read MDSR sections 3.1 and 3.2. Section 3.3 contains some dplyr work that I will save for discussion in chapter 4.
  • read Grolemund/Wickham sections 3.1 - 3.5
  • Reminder: PS 1 due on Monday
• in class:
  • day 4 slides: .Rmd .html
  • day 4 activity: .Rmd .md

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