Stat GR4243/5243 Applied Data Science

Spring 2019 - Teaching Materials (Syllabus)

Shortcuts: Project 1 | Project 2 | Project 3 | Project 4

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Project cycle 1: (Individual) R notebook for exploratory data analysis

(starter codes)

Week 1 (Jan 23)

• Introduction to ADS
• Project 1 description
• Tutorial 1 R Notebook + Example
• A tutorial on GitHub

Week 2 (Jan 30)

• An example R notebook on presidential speeches
  • zipped folder
  • known running issues & solutions, prepared by Yang Yang @jokerkeny
• Overview of starter codes
• Interactive Word Cloud
• Data Story Examples: Example 1 (repo), Example 2.
• Discussion and Q&A

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Shortcuts: Project 1 | Project 3 | Project 4

Project cycle 2: Shiny App Development

(starter codes)

Week 3 (Feb 6)

• Project 1 presentations.
• Project 2 starts.
  • Check Piazza for your project team and GitHub join link.
  • After you join project 2, you can clone your team's GitHub repo to your local computer.
  • You can find in the starter codes
    • the project description,
    • an example toy shiny app
    • a short tutorial to get you started.