| 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 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 |
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 dinner at Ward family home |
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 Day 24 lecture An introduction to UNIX Also see: Learning the Unix Operating System Fifth Edition by Jerry Peek, Grace Todino-Gonguet, and John Strang (O'Reilly, 2001) |
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 Day 25 lecture Some examples of UNIX utilities See: List of UNIX utilities on Wikipedia Here are a few of these that you might find particularly helpful: short list |
Thu, Oct 15 |
Fri, Oct 16 Day 26 lecture We began to discuss XML, which is discussed in Chapter 6 of the book: Learning XML, 2nd Edition by Erik T. Ray. We discussed how to parse XML code using R, with the XML library in Duncan Temple Lang's Omega project. Some examples of how to extract data from the web |
| Week 9: | Mon, Oct 19 Day 27 lecture More examples of how to extract data from the web See also Chapter 6 of the book: Learning XML, 2nd Edition |
Tues, Oct 20 (Lab) Assigned Project 7 |
Wed, Oct 21 Day 29 lecture Even more examples of how to extract data from the web We used two example files today: cdcatalog.xml bookexample.xml See also Chapter 6 of the book: Learning XML, 2nd Edition |
Thu, Oct 22 |
Fri, Oct 23 Day 30 lecture part 1 (extracting results from the Presidential election), and Day 30 lecture part 2 (extracting college ranking data) See also Chapter 6 of the book: Learning XML, 2nd Edition Election, improved version 1 Election, improved version 2 |
| Week 10: | Mon, Oct 26 Day 31 lecture Analyzing a large iTunes file using Dr. Ward's iTunes file as an example: iTunesMusicLibrary.xml We also debugged some student XML code in class |
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.) We also debugged more student code in class. |
Thu, Oct 29 |
Fri, Oct 30 Provided in-class debugging for student questions about Project 7 on XML |
| 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 Day 38 lecture Introduction to mysql using Sean Lahman's baseball archive |
| Week 12: | Mon, Nov 9 Day 39 lecture Using mysql from R Here are some more examples about mysql from the SQL book: examples and from the baseball database: examples |
Tues, Nov 10 (Lab) |
Wed, Nov 11 Dr. Ward meeting with Ozgur Delemen, Adriana Vars (in the afternoon) |
Thu, Nov 12 |
Fri, Nov 13 Dr. Ward meeting with Jake Libauskas, Catherine Cao, Jonathan Blair, Xin Lu Tan |
| Week 13: | Mon, Nov 16 Dr. Ward meeting with Wee Poh Ee, Miles Kopcke |
Tues, Nov 17 (Lab) |
Wed, Nov 18 Dr. Ward meeting with Katie Poon, Peter Cheng, Dan Kinnett |
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 Miles Kopcke, Catherine Cao |
Tues, Dec 1 (Lab) |
Wed, Dec 2 final project presentation by Ozgur Delemen, Wee Poh Ee |
Thu, Dec 3 |
Fri, Dec 4 final project presentation by Xin Lu Tan, Katie Poon |
| Week 16: | Mon, Dec 7 final project presentation by Jake Libauskas, Jonathan Blair |
Tues, Dec 8 (Lab) |
Wed, Dec 9 final project presentation by Peter Cheng, Adriana Vars |
Thu, Dec 10 |
Fri, Dec 11 final project presentation by Dan Kinnett |
| Final project submission due at 5 PM on Friday, December 18 | |||||
