STA 9750 - Software Tools for Data Analysis

Welcome to the course website for STA 9750 (Spring 2026)!

STA 9750 is an Introduction to R targeted at students in the MS in Business Analytics, MS in Statistics, and MS in Quantitative Methods programs.

This site hosts the Course Syllabus, Course Policies, and Course Learning Objectives. Copies of these documents may also be found on your CUNY Brightspace.

Required course pre-assignments, labs, and mini-projects can also be found on this site, as can my lecture slides and information relevant to the course project. Some helpful technical advice and tools can be found here

This offering of STA 9750 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.

Instructions for how to do so can be found here. If you use another calendar system that cannot accept CSV files in this format, let me know and I will try to provide additional file formats.

Instructor: Michael Weylandt