Syllabus



Date Module Topics Read Code Homework
Week 1 home Course design, goals, introduction, and setup
MODULE 1: an introduction to computing in R
Week 2 git/GitHub
Week 3 An introduction to R and R markdown
Week 4 Visualization basics
MODULE 2: host-virus associations
Week 5 bug_report An intro to VIRION and strings
Week 6 bug_report Data manipulation (base + plyr/dplyr)
MODULE 3: ecological simulation
Week 7 Loops and apply
Week 8 `List` objects
Week 9 Probabilistic processes
MODULE 4: making and evaluating models
Week 10 my_location Working with APIs
Week 11 my_location Statistical modeling
Week 12 my_location Making informed models + model performance
Week 13 Making your code readable, clean, and reproducible
FINAL PROJECTS
Week 14 school Final Project presentations