This page contains the schedule for the semester. Note that this schedule may be updated as the semester progresses, with all changes documented here.

Prepare Slides AE Labs HW Exam Project
Week 01 Mon, Aug 23 Welcome to STA 199!
Wed, Aug 25 Meet the Toolkit - Programming
Meet the Toolkit - Version Control
Thu, Aug 26 Lab 01: Hello R!
Week 02 Mon, Aug 30 Data and visualization
Visualizing data with ggplot2
Wed, Sep 01 Visualizing numerical data
Visualizing categorical data
Thu, Sep 02 Lab 02: Data visualization
Week 03 Mon, Sep 06 Grammar of data wrangling
Working with a single data frame
Wed, Sep 08 Data wrangling
HW 01 released
Thu, Sep 09 Lab 03: Data wrangling
Week 04 Mon, Sep 13 Working with multiple data frames
Wed, Sep 15 Visualizing spatial data
HW 02 released
Thu, Sep 16 Lab 04: Visualizing spatial data
Week 05 Mon, Sep 20 Data science ethics: Misrepresentation
Data science ethics: Data privacy
Data science ethics: Algorithmic bias
Wed, Sep 22 Troubleshooting & Debugging
Thu, Sep 23 NO LAB: Work on Exam 01
Exam 01 released
Week 06 Mon, Sep 27 Probability
Exam 01 due
Wed, Sep 29 Conditional probability
Simpson’s paradox
Thu, Sep 30 Lab 05: General Social Survey
Week 07 Mon, Oct 04 NO CLASS: FALL BREAK
Wed, Oct 06 Quantifying uncertainty
HW 03 released
Thu, Oct 07 Lab: Project proposal
Week 08 Mon, Oct 11 Estimation via bootstrapping
Wed, Oct 13 Hypothesis testing
Thu, Oct 14 Lab 06: Simulation-based inference
Project proposal due
Week 09 Mon, Oct 18 Simulation-based inference (Two Sample)
Wed, Oct 20 Simulation-based inference recap
HW 04 released
Thu, Oct 21 Lab 07: Two-sample inference
Week 10 Mon, Oct 25 Central Limit Theorem (CLT)
Wed, Oct 27 Inference using CLT
Thu, Oct 28 Lab 08: Inference using the Central Limit Theorem
Week 11 Mon, Nov 01 The language of models
Wed, Nov 03 Fitting and interpreting models
Thu, Nov 04 Lab 09: Intro to linear regression
Week 12 Mon, Nov 08 Models with multiple predictors
Wed, Nov 10 Models with multiple predictors cont’d
Thu, Nov 11 NO LAB: Work on Exam 02
Exam 02 released
Week 13 Mon, Nov 15 NO LECTURE: Work on Exam 02
Exam 02 due
Wed, Nov 17 Logistic Regression
HW 05 released
Project draft due on GitHub
Thu, Nov 18 Lab: Project peer review
Week 14 Mon, Nov 22 Customizing R Markdown reports + presentations
Wed, Nov 24 NO LECTURE: Thanksgiving break
Thu, Nov 25 NO LAB: Thanksgiving break
Week 15 Mon, Nov 29 Interactive data visualizations
Wed, Dec 01 Project Work Day
Thu, Dec 02 Lab: Project Work Day
Fri, Dec 03 Statistics experience due
Project report due
Exam period Wed, Dec 08 Video, slides, & repo due
Fri, Dec 10 Presentation comments due