Week 2

Projects, data frames, reading in data, visualizing data with ggplot2

Published

January 16, 2025

Modified

January 6, 2025

Pre-recorded videos

Links to pre-recorded videos are posted on Sakai, in the table with the links to live class recordings.

Topics

Projects
Data frames
Tidy data
Reading in data
Getting to know a dataset
Visualizing data with ggplot2 (intro)

Announcements

Class materials for BSTA 526 will be provided in the shared Dropbox folder BSTA_526_W25_class_materials_public.
For today’s class, make sure to download to your computer the folder called part_02, and then open RStudio by double-clicking on the file called part_02.Rproj.
If you have not already done so, please join the BSTA 526 Slack channel and introduce yourself by posting in the #random channel.

Class materials

Readings
Dropbox part_02 Project folder

Post-class survey

Please fill out the post-class survey to provide feedback. Thank you!
Previous muddiest points and clearest points with responses are collected here: https://niederhausen.github.io/BSTA_526_W25/survey_feedback_previous_years

Homework

See Dropbox folder for homework assignment.