STA/OPR 9750 - Basic Software Tools for Data Analysis

Welcome to the course website for STA/OPR 9750 (Fall 2024)!

STA/OPR 9750 is an Introduction to R targeted at students in the MS in Business Analytics, MS in Statistics, and MS in Quantitative Methods programs. Though listed as a double course, STA9750 and OPR9750 will be taught and graded jointly: students are encouraged to collaborate with classmates in either section.

This site hosts the unofficial Course Syllabus, Course Policies, and Course Learning Objectives. Official copies of these documents can be found on CUNY Brightspace. Course pre-assignments, labs, and mini-projects can also be found on this site.

This year, STA9750 will be taught in a mixture of the flipped-classroom and experiential-learning formats. Roughly, this means that most weeks, students will be asked to complete a small pre-assignment each week to introduce the core concept(s) covered in that week’s lecture. Each class period will be split between a brief lecture covering concepts in more detail and an extended lab activity designed to build familiarity and fluency with that week’s subject matter.

There are quite a few moving parts to this course, so this key dates file or the list of upcoming course activities below may be useful:

A CSV file suitable for import into Google Calendar with all assignment deadlines can be found here.

Instructor: Michael Weylandt