Schedule

Every weekly session has three sections.

  • Read: This page contains the slides and optional reading for the week.
  • HW: This page contains any problem sets for the week.
  • Try: This page contains example code from each week’s content.

Data wrangling Read HW Code
Sep 22 Week 1: Introduction
Sep 27, Sep 29 Week 2: Visualizing data with ggplot
Assignment 1
Oct 4, Oct 6 Week 3: Data wrangling
Assignment 2
Relationships in data Read HW Code
Oct 11, Oct 13 Week 4: Relationships between variables
Assignment 3
Oct 18, Oct 20 Week 5: Modeling
Assignment 4
Oct 25, Oct 27 Week 6: Prediction
Assignment 5
Causality Read HW Code
Nov 1, Nov 3 Week 7: Causality and confounds
Nov 8, Nov 10 Week 8: DAGs and controls
Assignment 6
Nov 15, Nov 17 Week 9: Natural experiments
Cancelled: Assignment 7
Uncertainty Read HW Code
Nov 22 Week 10: Uncertainty
(no class Thursday: Thanksgiving)
Nov 29 - Dec 1 Week 11: Quantifying uncertainty
Assignment 8
Dec 7th, 11:59PM Final Project Due