| Week 1: | Mon, Aug 24 Day 1 lecture An overview of the course; how to get R software; how to start using R software. |
Tues, Aug 25 (Lab) Assigned Project 1 |
Wed, Aug 26 Day 3 lecture Help features in R, getting familiar with variables and functions. Watched the video called "Did You Know?" |
Thu, Aug 27 |
Fri, Aug 28 Day 4 lecture seq, rep, parameters, Booleans, NA, NaN, ways to index a vector |
| Week 2: | Mon, Aug 31 Day 5 lecture Review: how to use vector indices Also: factors and tapply, with biological examples. |
Tues, Sep 1 (Lab) Assigned Project 2 |
Wed, Sep 2 Day 7 lecture More examples about factors and tapply |
Thu, Sep 3 |
Fri, Sep 4 Day 8 lecture Overview: matrix, array, data.frame, and list. Also made a map of Indiana with colors for class residents: indianamaps.R code indiana.jpg picture |
| Week 3: | Mon, Sep 7 (no lecture) Labor Day |
Tues, Sep 8 (Lab) Assigned Project 3 |
Wed, Sep 9 (no class) |
Thu, Sep 10 |
Fri, Sep 11 Day 10 lecture Reading data from external files, and managing graphics. Sample files: anotherdatafile.txt mydatafile.txt trythis.dat trythis2.dat |
| Week 4: | Mon, Sep 14 discussed pages 28-41 (from Ch 2) and all of Chapters 3 and 4 in Creating More Effective Graphs by Naomi B. Robbins (Wiley, 2005) |
Tues, Sep 15 (Lab) Assigned Project 4 |
Wed, Sep 16 discussed selections from The Elements of Graphing Data by William S. Cleveland (Hobart Press, 2004) |
Thu, Sep 17 |
Fri, Sep 18 discussed selections from The Elements of Graphing Data by William S. Cleveland (Hobart Press, 2004) |
| Week 5: | Mon, Sep 21 (no class) |
Tues, Sep 22 (Lab) Assigned Project 5 dinner at Ward family home |
Wed, Sep 23 Day 16 lecture Examples relevant to Project 5 Examples about a subset of a data.frame. |
Thu, Sep 24 |
Fri, Sep 25 Day 17 lecture More examples relevant to Project 5. We also introduce the apply function. |
| Week 6: | Mon, Sep 28 Day 18 lecture We prepare to work with baby names. We extract data from the web directly in R. We also write our first function, which is used to remove commas from a string. |
Tues, Sep 29 (Lab) An extra day to work on Project 5. |
Wed, Sep 30 Day 20 lecture We parse baby name data. We also use grep and nchar to explore the 2008 baby names. |
Thu, Oct 1 |
Fri, Oct 2 Day 21 lecture Assigned Project 6 We download and parse all 129 years of baby name data, and begin to explore it too. We use sapply, lapply, agrep, unique functions for the first time. |
| Week 7: | Mon, Oct 5 Day 22 lecture Some example functions: ISBN, Faro shuffle, Monty Hall, and a mystery problem |
Tues, Oct 6 (Lab) |
Wed, Oct 7 Case study on human rights. Chapters 1 and 2 in Data Analysis for Monitoring Human Rights by Herbert F. Spirer and Louise Spirer |
Thu, Oct 8 |
Fri, Oct 9 (no class) |
| Week 8: | Mon, Oct 12 (no lecture) October Break |
Tues, Oct 13 (no lecture) October Break |
Wed, Oct 14 Case study on human rights. Chapters 3 and 4 in Data Analysis for Monitoring Human Rights by Herbert F. Spirer and Louise Spirer |
Thu, Oct 15 |
Fri, Oct 16 Case study on human rights. Chapters 5 and 6 in Data Analysis for Monitoring Human Rights by Herbert F. Spirer and Louise Spirer |
| Week 9: | Mon, Oct 19 Discussed importing data by addressing individual student issues and questions. |
Tues, Oct 20 (Lab) Assigned Project 7 |
Wed, Oct 21 Day 29 lecture Introduced maps of the world. Example: Map using Political Terror Scale. |
Thu, Oct 22 |
Fri, Oct 23 Guest Lecture: Dr. Ann Marie Clark Associate Professor of Political Science |
| Week 10: | Mon, Oct 26 Guest Lecture: Dr. Riall Nolan Professor of Anthropology |
Tues, Oct 27 (Lab) |
Wed, Oct 28 Introduced Dr. Ward's MapFunction.txt and studied some MapExamples.txt (See also the discussion in Project 8.) |
Thu, Oct 29 |
Fri, Oct 30 Overview of maps, and student activity |
| Week 11: | Mon, Nov 2 Introduced Dr. Ward's CartogramFunction.txt and studied some CartogramExamples.txt (See also the discussion in Project 8.) |
Tues, Nov 3 (Lab) Assigned Project 8 |
Wed, Nov 4 Day 37 lecture More examples of making maps (not found in Project 8) |
Thu, Nov 5 |
Fri, Nov 6 Discussed the final project, with feedback from the class: final project plan final project presentation final project submission |
| Week 12: | Mon, Nov 9 Dr. Ward meeting with Joe Kasenga, Elli Reuland |
Tues, Nov 10 (Lab) |
Wed, Nov 11 Dr. Ward meeting with Nick Lawrence, Sarah Fox, Christy Heman |
Thu, Nov 12 |
Fri, Nov 13 Dr. Ward meeting with Nathan Laswell, Chris Holcomb, Chris Herring |
| Week 13: | Mon, Nov 16 Dr. Ward meeting with Maddy Valle, William Hess, Kelly Funk, Greg Lammers |
Tues, Nov 17 (Lab) |
Wed, Nov 18 Dr. Ward meeting with Karl Kurtz, Christine Latta, Geovon Boisvenue |
Thu, Nov 19 |
Fri, Nov 20 final project plan due at 5 PM |
| Week 14: | Mon, Nov 23 (no class) |
Tues, Nov 24 (no class) |
Wed, Nov 25 (no lecture) Thanksgiving Vacation |
Thu, Nov 26 (no lecture) Thanksgiving Vacation |
Fri, Nov 27 (no lecture) Thanksgiving Vacation |
| Week 15: | Mon, Nov 30 final project presentation by Chris Herring, Greg Lammers |
Tues, Dec 1 (Lab) |
Wed, Dec 2 final project presentation by Geovon Boisvenue, Nathan Laswell |
Thu, Dec 3 |
Fri, Dec 4 final project presentation by Nick Lawrence, Maddy Valle, Jason Myles |
| Week 16: | Mon, Dec 7 final project presentation by William Hess, Chris Holcomb, Kelly Funk |
Tues, Dec 8 (Lab) |
Wed, Dec 9 final project presentation by Sarah Fox, Elli Reuland, Christy Heman |
Thu, Dec 10 |
Fri, Dec 11 final project presentation by Joe Kasenga, Karl Kurtz, Christine Latta |
| Final project submission due at 5 PM on Friday, December 18 | |||||
