STA 9750 - Slides, Labs, and In-Class Activities

Most weeks, the “lecture” for STA 9750 will be focused on an in-class “lab”. These ungraded labs are an opportunity to see how the concepts introduced in that week’s pre-assignment are used in practice.

• Class Session #01 - Thursday January 29 2026
  • Lecture #01: Course Overview and Key Infrastructure
  • Lab #01: Rev your Engines! Setting-Up R and RStudio
  • Slides #01
• Class Session #02 - Thursday February 05 2026
  • Lecture #02: Tools for Reproducible Research
  • Lab #02: Getting Down with Markdown
  • Slides #02
• Class Session #03 - Thursday February 19 2026
  • Lecture #03: Coding in R: Variables, Control Flow, Packages, Function Calls
  • Lab #03: R, These are your First Steps
  • Slides #03
• Class Session #04 - Thursday February 26 2026
  • Project Proposal Presentation + Enrichment: Additional Review of R
  • Lab #04: Single Table Verbs, Group-Aware Filtering
  • Slides #04
• Class Session #05 - Thursday March 05 2026
  • Lecture #04: Single Table dplyr Verbs
  • Lab #04: Single Table Verbs, Group-Aware Filtering
  • Slides #05
• Class Session #06 - Thursday March 12 2026
  • Lecture #05: Multi-Table dplyr Verbs
  • Lab #05: Let us JOIN Our Tables Together
  • Slides #06
• Class Session #07 - Thursday March 19 2026
  • Lecture #06: Plotting with ggplot2
  • Lab #06: Thoughts on Plots
  • Slides #07
• Class Session #08 - Thursday March 26 2026
  • Mid-Semester Check-In Presentation + Enrichment: SQL
  • Lab #08: More ggplot2 - Chloropleths and Cartograms + Tools for Interactive Data Analysis
  • Slides #08
• Class Session #09 - Thursday April 16 2026
  • Lecture #07: Data Import and File System Usage; APIs
  • Lab #07: Data Import in R
  • Slides #09
• Class Session #10 - Tuesday April 21 2026
  • Lecture #08: Advanced ggplot2 – maps, interactivity, animation
  • Lab #08: More ggplot2 - Chloropleths and Cartograms + Tools for Interactive Data Analysis
  • Slides #10
• Class Session #11 - Thursday April 23 2026
  • Lecture #09: Introduction to Web Technologies & Web Scraping
  • Lab #09: Reading and Manipulating HTML in R
  • Slides #11
• Class Session #12 - Thursday April 30 2026
  • Lecture #10: Strings, Regular Expressions, and Text Processing
  • Lab #10: Strings and String-y Things
  • Slides #12
• Class Session #13 - Thursday May 07 2026
  • Final Project Presentation + Enrichment: Functional Tools in R
  • Slides #13
• Class Session #14 - Thursday May 14 2026
  • Lecture #11: Statistical Modeling in R
  • Lab #11: Predictive Modeling - Inference and Prediction in R
  • Slides #14