Introdution to Data Exploration with R

This is the notes repository for STS 98.

Important links:

• Syllabus
• Git Guide
• Graphics Guide
• Piazza
• Rubric

Package documentation:

• Viridis
• cartography

Other links:

• Have I Been Pwned? - check your account security

For links to specific assignments, see Piazza.

Lecture Notes:

Day	Notes	Topics	News Article
1	March 29	Git, R Basics	---
2	March 31	Inspecting Data	---
3	April 5	Loading Data, Missing Values, Subsets	Panama Papers Data Breach
4	April 7	Subsets, Bar/Dot Plots	Wired: Turkey Data Breach
5	April 12	Sorting, Statistics, Box Plots	NASA: Japan ASTER Data
6	April 14	Histograms, Density Plots	LA Times: Kobe Bryant's Shots
7	April 19	Guest Speaker: Tim McCarthy	FiveThirtyEight: Can't Trust Nutrition
8	April 21	Line Plots, Dates, Lattice	UK Housing Analysis
9	April 26	Functions, Scope, Apply Functions	Nautilus: Big Data Creates False Confidence
10	April 28	Review	The Guardian's Data Blog
11	May 3	Midterm	---
12	May 5	Maps	BallR
13	May 10	Maps, Interactive Maps	FiveThirtyEight: Swing The Election
14	May 12	Shapefiles, Outliers, Missing Data	I Quant NY: NYPD Ticketing
15	May 17	Guest Speaker: Triage Consulting, Correlation	FiveThirtyEight: Sumo Matchups
16	May 19	Confounding Variables, Joins	Global Cargo Ships Map
17	May 24	Reshape2, String Operations, Lattice	FlowingData: Changing American Diet
18	May 26	Lattice, ggplot2	Racial Dot Map
19	May 31	Web Scraping, Geocoding, dplyr	DHQ: Jane, John, ... Leslie?
20	June 2	Review	The Winnower: Sci-Hub Analysis