| Date | Topics | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 (Jan 8) | R basics review | 1.1-7, 1.13-15 |
| Week 2 (Jan 15) | Vectorized operations and EDA | 1.8-9, 2.7 |
| Week 3 (Jan 22) | Graphics | 3.1-5 |
| Week 4 (Jan 29) | Data structures | 1.10-11, 2.4-6, 4.2 |
| Week 5 (Feb 5) | Introduction to Programming | 5.1-6 |
| Week 6 (Feb 12) | Debugging and style; Simulation; | 5.8-9; 5.7, 7.1-3, 15.11 |
| Week 7 (Feb 19) | Representation of Numbers | |
| Week 8 (Feb 26) | Review and midterm | |
| IN CLASS Midterm exam: Thursday, Mar 1 | ||
| (March 5) | spring break | |
| Week 9 (March 12) | Shell | 2.1-3, 10.1-5 |
| Week 10 (March 19) | Regular expressions and text mining | 8.1-5, 15.9 |
| Week 11 (March 26) | XML and simple web scraping | 11.2-3, 4.4 |
| Week 12 (April 2) | SQL | 9.1-5 |
| Week 13 (April 9) | JSON + XML + bootstrap | 6.1-2, 6.4 |
| Week 14 (April 16) | cross-validation + more web scraping | |
| Week 15 (April 23) | logistic regression + Review | |
| Tuesday May 1 | Comprehensive final exam 4:40-6:30 in HHD (Health and Human Development) 254 |