As introduced in the course syllabus, there are two text books required in this course. Other readings will be linked below.
Other course readings will be linked below or (when necessary) made available on Canvas.
It is expected that students will be prepared when they come to class. Being prepared includes doing the required reading listed below.
No readings. (Course introduction)
W&G Chapter 1: Welcome - Introduction, Chapter 2: Explore - Introduction, Chapter 4 Explore: Workflow Basics
Additionally please be sure to have both R and R Studio installed on your machine before our class meeting.
Optional reading
W&G Chapter 9: Welcome - Introduction, Chapter 10: Tibbles, Chapter 11: Data Import, Chapter 12: Tidy Data
Optional reading
W&G Chapter 3: Data Visualization
Healy, Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction Chapters 1 and 3. (on Canvas)
Optional reading
G 9.8, 9.9 (Skim)
Optional reading
In-Class Lab;Shape File #1;Shape File #2;
Healy, Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction Chapter 7. (on Canvas)
Moreno and Basille, Drawing beautiful maps programmatically with R, sf and ggplot2 — Part 1: Basics
Optional reading
W&G Chapter 22: Model - Introduction; Chapter 23: Model Basics
Kass et al. 2016. “Ten Simple Rules for Effective Statistical Practice”
Tong 2019. “Statistical Inference Enables Bad Science; Statistical Thinking Enables Good Science”
G 2.1-2.4 (Skim)
W&G Chapter 24: Model Building; Chapter 21: Iteration
G 3.3, 4.1–4.6
Optional reading
Kuhn, Max. 2019. caret. Chapter
5: Model Training and Tuning
G 5–6
Molnar. 2021. Chapter 3: Interpretability; Section 8.1 Partial Dependence Plot; Section 8.5 Permutation Feature Importance; Section 9.1 Individual Conditional Expectation
Optional Exercises;(Solutions)
[Review] W&G Chapter 14: Strings
Baumer et al. 2021. Chapter 19: Text as Data.
Silge and Robinson. 2021. Chapter 6: Topic Modeling
[Skim] G. 9
Optional reading
W&G Chapter 13: Relational Data
Batra et al. 2021. Chapter 20: Missing Data.
No readings. Optional resources to be shared during class session