Schedule of Topics

Introduction to computing for the social sciences

Visualizations and the grammar of graphics

Data transformation

Juneteenth (observed)

no class on Juneteenth

Tidying and Importing Data

Tidying, Joins, Scripts

EDA: exploratory data analysis

Data: communication

Data Structures: Vectors and Numbers

Functions

Debugging and defensive programming

Strings and Regex

Publishing reproducible documents

Factors

A deep dive into Git/GitHub

A deep dive into R Markdown

Getting data from the web: API access

Getting data from the web: scraping

Text analysis: fundamentals

Text analysis: topic modeling and sentiment analysis

Reproducible Workflow

Recap + Review

Recap + Review