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Data Science with R for the Life Sciences (BIOL 806)


Schedule

Date Unit General.topic
31-Aug Lecture Reproducibility and open science, intro to tools
2-Sep Lab Intro R, building docs in knitr
7-Sep Lecture Data entry, storage, formatting
9-Sep Lab Lab: Open Refine lesson
14-Sep Lecture Pulling in data, building plots
16-Sep Lab Data viz lab
21-Sep Lecture SQL and database management
23-Sep Lab SQL lab
28-Sep Lecture Command line
30-Sep Lab Command line lab
5-Oct Lecture Version control with Git/Github
7-Oct Lab Github lab
12-Oct Lecture R for Reproducible Science I
14-Oct Lab R lab I
19-Oct Lecture R for Reproducible Science II
21-Oct Lab R lab II
26-Oct Lecture R for Reproducible Science III
28-Oct Lab R lab III
2-Nov Lecture R for Reproducible Science IV
4-Nov Lab R lab IV
9-Nov Lecture Group project
11-Nov Veteran’s day No class
16-Nov Lecture Spatial data
18-Nov Lab Spatial data lab
23-Nov Lecture No class
25-Nov Thanksgiving No class
30-Nov Lecture Group project
2-Dec Lab Group project
7-Dec Lecture Presentations
9-Dec Lab Presentations
14-Dec Finals Final Exam Period (no final exam in this course)