CSS_Course_Schedule_Fall24.xlsx

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1	COMPUTING FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES FALL 2024 COURSE SCHEDULE
2	WEEK 1	Mon 9/30	Tue 10/1	Wed 10/2	Thu 10/3	Fri 10/4	Sat 10/5	Sun 10/6
3	LECTURE	1. Course Logistics. Software Setup. Markdown. Git/GitHub in RStudio.		2. Grammar of Graphics and ggplot2. Coding style in R.
4	HOMEWORK		HW1 OPEN
5	WEEK 2	Mon 10/7	Tue 10/8	Wed 10/9	Thu 10/10	Fri 10/11	Sat 10/12	Sun 10/13
6	LECTURE	3. Intro to dplyr. Pipes in R.		4. Exploratory vs. Confirmatory Data Analysis. Using Graphs for Data Analysis.
7	HOMEWORK		HW1 DUE		HW2 OPEN
8	WEEK 3	Mon 10/14	Tue 10/15	Wed 10/16	Thu 10/17	Fri 10/18	Sat 10/19	Sun 10/20
9	LECTURE	5. Factors in R. More dplyr. Data cleaning (recoding/renaming variables; missing data)		6. Importing/exporting data. Relational data with dplyr.	HW2 DUE HW3 OPEN
10	HOMEWORK
11	WEEK 4	Mon 10/21	Tue 10/22	Wed 10/23	Thu 10/24	Fri 10/25	Sat 10/26	Sun 10/27
12	LECTURE	7. Tidying data with tidyr.		8. Data Structures and Base R.
13	HOMEWORK				HW3 DUE
14	WEEK 5	Mon 10/28	Tue 10/29	Wed 10/30	Thu 10/31	Fri 11/1	Sat 11/2	Sun 11/3
15	LECTURE	9. Control Structures: Conditional Statements (and Mid-Course Review)		10. Control Structures: Loops
16	HOMEWORK				HW4 OPEN
17	WEEK 6	Mon 11/4	Tue 11/5	Wed 11/6	Thu 11/7	Fri 11/8	Sat 11/9	Sun 11/10
18	LECTURE	11. Functions.		12. More on Functions. Debugging.
19	HOMEWORK				HW4 DUE HW5 OPEN
20	WEEK 7	Mon 11/11	Tue 11/12	Wed 11/13	Thu 11/14	Fri 11/15	Sat 11/16	Sun 11/17
21	LECTURE	13. Working with Strings & Regular Expressions. HW2 Review		14. Getting Data from the Web: Scraping. HW3 Review
22	HOMEWORK				HW5 DUE HW6 OPEN
23	WEEK 8	Mon 11/18	Tue 11/19	Wed 11/20	Thu 11/21	Fri 11/22	Sat 11/23	Sun 11/24
24	LECTURE	15. Getting Data from the Web: Scraping (cont.) & intro to API.		16. Getting Data from the Web: API. HW4 Review + Vote for Final Class
25	HOMEWORK				HW7 OPEN	HW6 DUE
26	BREAK	Mon 11/25	Tue 11/26	Wed 11/27	Thu 11/28	Fri 11/29	Sat 11/30	Sun 12/1
27	THANKSGIVING BREAK!
28	WEEK 9	Mon 12/2	Tue 12/3	Wed 12/4	Thu 12/5	Fri 12/6	Sat 12/7	Sun 12/8
29	LECTURE	17. Reproducible Workflow. HW5 Review		18. Final Project Check-In
30	HOMEWORK					HW7 DUE
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