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. For three weeks, student presentations will take the majority of the class period and optional (but recommended!) enrichment topics will be covered in the remaining class time.
- Class Session #01 - Thursday January 29 2026
- Lecture #01: Course Overview and Key Infrastructure
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Lab #01:
Rev your Engines! Setting-UpRandRStudio - 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
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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
- 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
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Lab #05: Let us
JOINOur 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
- Slides #08
- Class Session #09 - Thursday April 16 2026
- Lecture #07: Data Import and File System Usage; APIs
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Lab #07: Data Import in
R - Slides #09
- Class Session #10 - Tuesday April 21 2026
- Lecture #08: Advanced ggplot2 – maps, interactivity, animation
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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
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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
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Lab #11: Predictive Modeling - Inference and Prediction in
R - Slides #14