Modules
Module 1
Week Overviews
Week 1: Introduction to Course – meet the team, understand the mission.
Weeks 2–4: We're in Antarctica!
Practice:
Weeks 2–4: We're in Antarctica!
Practice:
- Exploring and summarizing data about our new colleagues
- Exploring weather station data
- Learning R and RStudio, basic data manipulation
Antarctica Narrative
We start en route to Antarctica! Students took a survey to get to know teammates and pick a mascot.
We study weather data from Antarctic research stations and use the Palmer Penguin dataset for practice.
Module 1.1
Concepts
- What is data science and how does it interact with daily life?
- What is RStudio and how to navigate it
- Assigning variables
Week Schedule
- 🗓️ Day 1: Welcome! Survey completed. Data to be used in Week 2.
- Day 2: Discussion on data science and society; reflection prompt.
- Day 3: Used
welcome.Rmdin class for basic RStudio, arithmetic, and variable assignment.
Module 1.2
Concepts
- Assigning variables
- Creating vectors
- Functions & arguments
- Loading data from CSV
- Creating vectors from data columns
- Calculating mean, median, standard deviation
Week Schedule
- Day 1: Labor Day – No class
- Day 2: Code-along with
introToR.Rmd. Topics: variables, camel case, loading data, central tendency.
Homework:problemSet1.Rmd - Day 3: Group work on
penguinPractice1.Rmdin Watzek Library – great collaboration!
Description
Short week due to Labor Day. Code-along and group practice helped reinforce new skills.