Schedule

Schedule and course materials for Data Science in R for Biologists (Zool 710 Spring 2023).

Schedule and course materials

For Qmd files (markdown document with Quarto which are cross-language executable code), go to the course GitHub repository and navigate the directories, or best of all clone the repo and navigate within RStudio or your text browser and R console.

Week	Dates	Topics	Projects
Module 1		Computational Tools for Data Science
Week 1	Jan 17	👋 Installing R/RStudio, GitHub [html] [Qmd]
	Jan 19	👩‍💻 Shell scripts, File Organization [html] [Qmd]
Module 2		Data Analysis in R
Week 2	Jan 24	🐙 Intro to Git and GitHub [html] [Qmd]	🌴 Project 0 [html] [Qmd]
	Jan 24	🐙 Reproducible Research and Literate Programming / Intro to Quarto
	Jan 26	🔬 What is the Question? Data management and workflow
Week 3	Jan 31	👓 Reading/Writing data
	Feb 2	🔪 Tidying Data	🍂 Project 0 due
Module 3		Data Visulization in R
Week 4	Feb 7	📊 Plotting Systems (Base R)
	Feb 9	📊 ggplot2
Module 4		Nuts and Bolts of R
Week 5	Feb 14	🔩 R Nuts and Bolts (Objects)
	Feb 16	🤝 Reshaping objects	🍂 Project 1 due
Week 6	Feb 21	📝 Control Structures
	Feb 23	📋 Functions
Week 7	Feb 28	🐒 Loop Functions
	Mar 2	🐛 Debugging and Error Handling
Module 5		Special Data Types
Week 8	Mar 7	📆 Dates and Times
	Mar 9	🐎 Regular Expressions	🍂 Project 2 due
Week 9	Mar 14	☀️ Spring Break
	Mar 16	☀️ Spring Break
Week 10	Mar 21	🍄 Factors
	Mar 23	🌵 Text Data and Strings
Module 6		Intro to Morphometrics
Week 11	Mar 28	📏 Linear Morphometrics, Size, Shape
	Mar 30	📐 Landmark-based Morphometrics
Week 12	Apr 4	💀 3D Morphometrics
	Apr 6	🐾 3D Morphometrics
Module 7		Phylogenetic Trees
Week 13	Apr 11	🌱 Trees as Data Objects	🍂 Project 3 due
	Apr 13	🌴 Reading and writing trees, ape, ggtree, treeio
Week 14	Apr 18	🌳 Reshaping Trees
	Apr 20	🌺 Annotating Tree Plots
Module 8		Other Topics
Week 15	Apr 25	🐍 Parsing Data from any Format
	Apr 27	🌰 Student choice topic
Week 16	May 2	🏆 Final Presentations	🎊 Project 4 due