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At an intersection of Enigmas of
Chance and
Corrupting the Young.

Class homepage

Fall 2014

Class announcement

Lectures:

Introduction to the Course; Basic Data Types

Bigger Data Structures

Dataframes and Control

Introduction to Strings

Regular Expressions

Writing Functions

Multiple Functions

Getting Data in and out of R

Dataframes with Regression Models

Random Number Generation

Distributions as Models

Data Selection and Data Transformation

Debugging Code

Testing Code

Top-down Design

Functions as Objects

Optimization I: Basics

Optimization II: Constrained and Penalized Optimization

Labs:

Exponentially More Fun

Things That Go Vroom

Scrape the Rich!

Heart of the (Tiny) Tiger

Division and Power in the !%

October Surprise

How the Tetracycline Came to Peoria

Homework:

Rainfall, Data Structures, Sequences

Housing, Dataframes, Control

Super Scalper Scrape

The Death and Life of Great American City Scaling Laws

Pareto and Kuznets on the Grand Tour

Bug Hunt

If All Your Friends Started Prescribing Tetracycline, Would You Start Too?

Exams:

Midterm Project: Nobody Knows Anything

Fall 2013

Class announcement

Lectures:

Combined lectures 1 and 2: intro to the class, basic data types, basic data structures, structures of structures

Flow control, iteration, vectorization

Writing and Calling Functions

Writing Multiple Functions

Top-Down Design

Testing

Debugging

Functions as Objects

Optimization I: Simple Optimization

Abstraction and Refactoring

Split, Apply, Combine I: Using Basic R

Split, Apply, Combine II: Using plyr

Simulation I: Generating Random Variables

Simulation II: Markov Chains

Simulation III: Monte Carlo and Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Simulation IV: Quantifying uncertainty with simulations

Optimization II: Deterministic, unconstrained optimization

Optimization III: Stochastic and constrained optimization

Basic character/string manipulation

Regular expressions

Importing data from web pages

Review on text processing

Change of representation; text as vectors

Databases

Simulation V: Matching simulation models to data

Speed, computational complexity, going beyond R

Computing for statistics

Unnumbered because not actually delivered in class: The Scope of Names

Labs:

Basic Probability, Basic Data Structures

Only the Answers Have Changed

Of Big- and Small- Hearted Cats

Like a Jackknife to the Heart

Testing Our Way to Outliers

I Can Has Likelihood Surface?

Bunches of Novels

How Antiobiotics Came to Peoria

Tremors

Scrape the Rich

Baseball Salaries

Homework:

Rainfall, Data Structures, Obsessive Doodling

Tweaking Resource-Allocation-by-Tweaking

Hitting Bottom and Calling for a Shovel

Standard Errors of the Cat Heart

Dimensions of Anomaly

I Made You a Likelihood Function, But I Ate It

The Intensity of 19th Century Literature

Antibiotic Diffusion and Outlier Resistance

Canceled

A Maze of Twisty Little Passages

Several Hundred Degrees of Separation

Exams:

Midterm Exam

Self-Evaluation and Lessons Learned

Fall 2012

Class announcement

Lectures with no links haven't been delivered yet, and the order an topics may
change.

Lectures:

Introduction to the class, basic data types, basic data structures

More data structures: matrices, data frames, structures of structures

Flow Control, Looping, Vectorization

Writing and Calling Functions

Writing Multiple Functions

Top-Down Design

Testing

Debugging

The Scope of Names

Functions as Objects

Split/Apply/Combine I: Using Basic R

Split/Apply/Combine II: Using plyr

Abstraction and Refactoring

Graphics (canceled)

Simulation I: Random variable generation

Simulation II: Monte Carlo, Markov chains, Markov chain Monte Carlo

Optimization I: Deterministic, Unconstrained
Optimization

Optimization II: Stochastic, Constrained, and Penalized Optimization

Basic Text Manipulation

Regular Expressions I

Regular Expressions II

Importing Data from Web Pages

Reshaping Data

Relational Databases I

Relational Databases II

Labs:

Basic Probability, Basic Data Structures

Flow Control and the Urban Economy

Of Big- and Small- Hearted Cats

Like a Jackknife to the Heart

Testing Our Way to Outliers

I Can Has Likelihood Surface?

Bunches of Novels, or, Representation and the History of Genre

How Antibiotics Came to Peoria

A Maze of Twisty Little Passages

Homework:

Rainfall, Data Structures, Obsessive Doodling

Tweaking Resource-Allocation-by-Tweaking

Hitting Bottom and Calling for a Shovel

Standard Errors of the Cat Heart

Dimensions of Anomaly

I Made You a Likelihood Function, But I Ate It

canceled

The Intensity of 19th Century Literature

Antibiotic Diffusion and Outlier Resistance

Several Hundred Degrees of Separation

Exams:

Midterm Exam

Final Project Options

Fall 2011

Class announcement

Lectures:

Introduction to the class, basic data types, basic data structures

More Data Structures: Matrices, Lists, Data Frames, Structures of Structures

Flow Control, Looping, Vectorization

Writing and Calling Functions

Writing Multiple Functions

Top-Down Design

The Scope of Names

Debugging

Testing

Functions as Arguments

Functions as Return Values

Exam briefing

Split, Apply, Combine: Using Base R

Split, Apply, Combine: Using plyr

Abstraction and Refactoring

Simulation I: Random Variable Generation

Exam debriefing

Simulation II: Monte Carlo and Markov Chains

Simulation III: Mixing and Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Basic Character Manipulation

Regular Expressions I

Regular Expressions II

Importing Data from Webpages I

Importing Data from Webpages II

Databases I

Databases II

Homework:

Rainfall and Data Structures

Tweaking Resource-Allocation-by-Tweaking

Improving Estimation by Nonlinear Least Squares

Standard Errors of the Cat Heart

Rancorous Testing

Outlier-Robust Linear Regression

'Tis the Season to Be Unemployed

Sampling Accidents

Get (the 400) Rich(est list) Quick

Baseball Salaries

Labs:

Basic Probability and Basic Data Structures

Flow Control and the Urban Economy

Of Big- and Small- Hearted Cats

Further Errors of the Cat Heart

Testing Our Way to Outliers

Likelihood

Split-Apply-Combine

Changing My Shape, I Feel Like an Accident

Regular Expressions I

Exams:

Midterm

Final Project Descriptions

My Work Here Is Done

Self-Evaluation and Lessons Learned

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