Course Schedule

This page displays an outline of the topics, content, and assignments for the term. Each module starts on a Monday. There are no assignments due on Sundays.

Week Date Topic Readings Videos Module Slides Assignments
1 Jan 13 Course Intro 📺 📒 🖥️
Getting Started with Quarto 📖 📺 📒 🖥️
2 Jan 20 Bar charts, histograms 📖 📖 📺 📺 📒 🖥️
Line charts, scatter plots 📖 📖 📺 📺 📒 🖥️ 📘
3 Jan 26 Downloading and manipulating data 📖 📺 📒 🖥️
Summarizing by groups 📖 📺 📒 🖥️ 📘
4 Feb 3 Homework 1: Visualize modernization theory 📖 🧮
5 Feb 10 Categorical data 📖 📺 📒 🖥️
Continuous data 📖 📺 📒 🖥️ 📘
6 Feb 17 Describing distributions 📖 📒 🖥️
Sampling and uncertainty 📖 📺 📺 📒 🖥️ 📘
7 Feb 24 Single proportion tests 📖 📒 🖥️
Differences between two groups 📖 📺 📒 🖥️ 📘
8 Mar 3 Homework 2: Evaluate a claim 📖 🧮
Mar 10 No Class Spring Break ☀️🌴🏄
9 Mar 17 Fitting a line to data 📖 📺 📺 📒 🖥️ 📘
Least squares regression 📖 📺 📺 📒 🖥️
10 Mar 24 Multiple linear regression 📖 📺 📒 📘
Dealing with outliers 📖 📖 📖 📺 📺 📒 📗 📘
11 Mar 31 Logistic regression 📖 📺 📺 📒 🖥️
Interpreting results 📺 📒 🖥️ 📘
12 Apr 7 Multiple predictors and interactions 📖 📺 📒 🖥️
Visualizing and communicating results 📺 📺 📒 🖥️ 📘
13 Apr 14 Homework 3: Analyzing conflict 🧮
14 Apr 21 Final project workshop 🖥️ 🖥️ ✍️