Syllabus

Instructor Emails and Office Hours:

Prof. Clinton: josh.clinton@vanderbilt.edu Office Hours Signup

Prof. Doyle: w.doyle@vanderbilt.edu Office Hours Signup

Teaching Assistants:

Qi Xu: qi.xu.1@vanderbilt.edu Office Hours Mondays 3-4

Lecture Notes, Data and Code for Each Topic

Note: When new readings or async videos are available, they will be linked under the appropriate week.

To access lecture notes and/or data sets use ctrl+click on a mac or right click on a pc, then click "save link as" and save to the class directory on your computer.

1. The Wonderful World of Data Science

Lecture notes: PDF .Rmd

Survey Results: HTML

2. Hello, World!

Lecture notes: HTML PDF .Rmd

Data: College Debt Data

Part 2 of lecture notes: HTML PDF .Rmd

3. Data Wrangling

Lecture slides: PDF Lecture notes: PDF

Michigan Exit Poll Data

Johns Hopkins Covid Data

Readings/Resources

"The Gender gap was expected to be historic."

"Exit polls, election surveys and more"

Wickham & Grolemund, Chapter 3

4. Univariate Data Analysis

Lecture Notes, Part 1: .Rmd PDF HTML

Dataset: nba_players.Rds

Codebook for nba_players.Rds

Lecture Notes, Part 2:.Rmd PDF HTML

Dataset: game_summary.Rds

Codebook for game_summary.Rds

If you're interested, code to access the NBA reference database for player-level data

If you're interested, code to access the NBA reference database for game-level data

5. Univariate Data Visualization

Detailed Lecture Notes: PDF

Lecture slides: PDF

Dataset: Pres2020.PV.Rdata

Student Outline: .Rmd

If interested: Challenger: The Final Flight

6. Conditional Data Visualization

Student Outline: .Rmd

Complete Markdown Code: .Rmd

Lecture slides - Part 1: PDF

Lecture slides - Part 2: PDF

Optional Report on 2020 Polls: PDF

7. Resampling Redux

Partial List of functions used thus far: .Rmd HTML

Lecture Notes - Part 1: .Rmd PDF HTML

Lecture Notes - Part 2: .Rmd PDF HTML

Dataset: pa.sample.select.Rdata

Dataset: Pres2020.PV.Rdata

8. Predicting (And Mapping)

Predicting the Electoral College - JDC Code: .Rmd HTML

Predicting the Electoral College: .Rmd HTML

Dataset: Pres2020.StatePolls.Rdata

Optional Notes - Mapping in R: .Rmd PDF HTML

Optional Dataset: StatePresidentialVote2020.Rdata

Optional Dataset: StateECV.Rdata

9. Regression

Regression notes, part 1: .Rmd HTML

Regression notes, part 2: .Rmd HTML

Regression notes, part 3: .Rmd HTML

"Simpler" version of workflows

Movie Data: mv.Rds

In case you're interested, code for accessing movie data, including the IMDB data

10. Clustering, Text, and Twitter...

Clustering notes, part 1: .Rmd HTML

Clustering notes, part 2: .Rmd HTML

Predicting with Text, part 3: .Rmd HTML

Sentiment Analysis with Twttter Text, part 4: .Rmd HTML

Florida County Data - for part 1: FloridaCountData.Rda

Federalist Papers Data - for part 2: FederalistPaperCorpusTidy.Rda

Federalist Papers Data - for part 3: FederalistPaperDocumentTermMatrix.Rda

Tweet-Level Data on Trump Tweets - for part 4: Trumptweets.Rda

Word-Level Data on Trump Tweets - for part 4: Trump_tweet_words.Rda

11. Classification: Or, Become an Admissions Dean for Fun and Profit!

Lecture 1: The Admissions "Funnel" and the Problem of Classification

Rmd

HTML Notes

Data

Lecture 2: Logistic Regression and the AUC

Rmd

HTML Notes

Data

Lecture 3: Cross Validation and Feature Selection for Classifiers

Rmd Notes

HTML Notes

Data

Lecture 4: Changing Policy

Rmd Notes

HTML Notes

Data

Our Last Day!

What happened to Zillow Offers? part 1

What happened to Zillow Offers?, part 2

Leaderboard from Movies!

Google form for feedback

Helpful Resources

Rstudio Cheat Sheet: Data Wrangling

Rstudio Cheat Sheet: ggplot2

R-graphics Cookbook

... And the full list of Rstudio cheat sheets

Tidymodels Resources