Course content is designed to be flexible to accommodate student interest and abilities. The order and timing of course topics may change as the semester progresses.
Readings
In the table below, R4DS refers to R for Data Science by Garrett Grolemund and Hadley Wickham and, while GCR refers to Geocomputation with R by Robin Lovelace, Jakub Nowosad, and Jannes Muenchow (CRC Press, 2018).
Homework Homeworks are due at 5pm on the Friday of the week specified below.
| Week | Date | Presentation | Topic / Tasks | Case Study | Package Present | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8/28/18 | Git-01 | Create a simple, functioning script | |||
| 2 | 9/4/18 | Git-02 | My grandfather says climate is cooling | |||
| 3 | 9/11/18 | Data Wrangling | Wealth over time | 1 | ||
| 4 | 9/18/18 | Data Wrangling 2 | Farthest airport from New York City | 2 | ||
| 5 | 9/25/18 | Spatial Vector Data | Beware the Canadians! | 3 | ||
| 6 | 10/2/18 | Spatial Raster Data | Find hottest country on each continent | 4 | ||
| 7 | 10/9/18 | Project Proposal | Getting Help! | 5 | ||
| 8 | 10/16/18 | Create Final Project Webpage | One Script, Many Products | 6 | ||
| 9 | 10/23/18 | APIs, time-series, and weather Data | - | 7 | ||
| 10 | 10/30/18 | - | - | 8 | ||
| 11 | 11/6/18 | Project First Draft | - | 9 | ||
| 12 | 11/13/18 | Project Peer Review | Dynamic HTML graph of Daily Temperatures | 10 | ||
| 13 | 11/20/18 | Thanksgiving Week (Tuesday Class Optional) | - | |||
| 14 | 11/27/18 | Final Project 2nd Draft / Building and summarizing models | - | |||
| 15 | 12/4/18 | Final Presentation | - | |||
| 16 | 12/14/18 | Publish Final Project | - |