The following table will be frequently updated with the schedule for the coming weeks. Note: If there is no Reading for a topic, the Reading Link is not active.
| Reading | Link | Packages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | |||
| What is Data Science? | MDSR Ch 1.1 | Reading Link | — |
| Data Journalism | CJGD Executive Summary and Introduction | Reading Link | — |
| Hand Drawn Data Visualizations | — | Reading Link | — |
| Data Visualization Principles | MDSR Ch 2.1 - 2.4 | Reading Link | — |
| Week 2 | |||
| Reproducible Workflow | — | Reading Link | — |
| Data Stories | CJGD Communication | Reading Link | — |
| Coding Style | Tidyverse Style Guide | Reading Link | — |
| Reproducible Examples | reprex Vignette | Reading Link | reprex |
| Reproducible Examples | reprex Tutorial | Reading Link | reprex |
| Grammar of Graphics | MDSR Ch 3.1 - 3.3 | Reading Link | ggplot2 |
| Week 3 | |||
| GitHub and git | Ch 1 of Happy Git and GitHub for the useR | Reading Link | — |
| GitHub and git | MDSR D.3 | Reading Link | — |
| Data Wrangling | MDSR Ch 4 | Reading Link | dplyr |
| R Projects | — | Reading Link | — |
| R Packages | — | Reading Link | devtools, usethis |
| Week 4 | |||
| Data Joins | MDSR Ch 5 intro, 5.1 - 5.2 | Reading Link | dplyr |
| Tidy Data and Data Reshaping | MDSR Ch 6.1 - 6.2 | Reading Link | tidyr |
| Week 5 | |||
| Ingesting Data and API Wrapper Packages | — | Reading Link | readr |
| API Calls and Web Scraping | MDSR 6.4.1 - 6.4.2 | Reading Link | httr, rvest |
| Week 6 | |||
| R Objects | R4DS Ch 20 - 20.5 | Reading Link | — |
| Functions | R4DS Ch 19 | Reading Link | — |
| Week 7 | |||
| Distill Blog | — | Reading Link | distill |
| Code Smells | — | Reading Link | — |
| Refactoring Code | — | Reading Link | — |
| Week 8 | |||
| Iteration (Moved from Week 7) | R4DS Ch 21 | Reading Link | purrr |
| Dates and Times | R4DS Ch 16 | Reading Link | lubridate |
| Factors | R4DS Ch 15 | Reading Link | forcats |
| Week 9 | |||
| Strings | R4DS Ch 14 | Reading Link | stringr |
| Text Analysis | MDSR 19 - 19.3 | Reading Link | tidytext |
| Week 10 | |||
| Spatial Data | MDSR 17 - 17.8 | Reading Link | leaflet, sf |
| Animation | gganimate Getting Started Vignette | Reading Link | gganimate |
| Interactivity | MDSR Ch 14 - 14.1.3 | Reading Link | plotly |
| Week 11 | |||
| Interactive Web Applications | MDSR Ch 14.4 | Reading Link | shiny |
| Break | |||
| Spring Break | — | Reading Link | breakr |
| Week 12 | |||
| Data Ethics | MDSR Ch 8 - 8.10 | Reading Link | — |
| Week 13 | |||
| Database Querying using SQL | MDSR Ch 15 - 15.6 | Reading Link | — |