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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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