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Date Type Theme Content
W Sept. 4th course Why programming? Reproducible research, Bespoke custom analysis, Independence for creating models, Beautiful figures, Sharing analytical tools, Package ecosystem
W Sept. 4th course Intro to computer and programming logic Intro to programming logic, Computers, Memory, Processors, Programming languages, Interpreted vs compiled languages, Machine code vs source code, Using text files, Text editor, IDE.
Th Sept. 5th office hour Help installing prerequisites R/python/Rstudio/VsCode/git on your machine
M Sept. 9th course Basic interaction with R and python Basic programming; Setting up R, python and your project; Variables; Maths; Packages
W Sept. 11th course Version control git basics, project discipline, read only data, write only outputs.
Th Sept. 12th, F Sept. 13th precept Hello World! R/python/git Getting a working setup
M Sept. 16th course Control flow 1 if, for, while…
W Sept. 18th course Control flow 2 Functions and environments
Th Sept. 19th, F Sept. 20th precept Control flow Let’s start to actually code
M Sept. 23th course Data input and output Reading data from file, data-structures for ecological and genomics data
W Sept. 25th course String manipulation Strings and regular expressions
Th Sept. 26th, F Sept. 27th precept Input-output and string Talking with your program
M Sept. 30th course Data wrangling 1 The verbs of data wrangling: filter, select, mutate, summarize, joins…
W Oct. 2nd course Data wrangling 2 Complex sequences of data manipulation
Th Oct. 3rd, F Oct. 4th precept Data wrangling
M Oct. 7th course Applying and mapping functions. Split-apply-combine methods; apply family, plyr, dplyr, map, purrr. Modularizing code.
W Oct. 9th course Finding new genes Guest Lecture (Cara Weisman)
Th Oct. 10th, F Oct. 11th precept Precept TBD + help on midterm assignment
Su Oct. 13th assignment Midterm assignment is due Be on time, 11:59pm!
M Oct. 21st course Recap and midterm solutions What have you learned?
W Oct. 23th course Plotting 1 The grammar of graphics
Th Oct. 24th, F Oct. 25th precept Plotting
M Oct. 28th course Plotting 2 Making plots pretty
W Oct. 30th course Plotting 3 Designing good visualizations
Th Oct. 31st, F Nov. 1st precept More plotting
M Nov. 4th course Statistics/Data Science 1 Simple models, uncertainties, hypothesis testing
W Nov. 6th course Statistics/Data Science 2 Models, regressions and machine learning
Th Nov. 7th, F Nov. 8th precept Statistics/Data Science
M Nov. 11th course Bash and working on a cluster Remote file, parallelization, job management
W Nov. 13th course Bioinformatics 1 Guest lecture (Andrew Webb). Objectives of bioinformatic sequence analysis and available tools
Th Nov. 14th, F Nov. 15th precept Bioinformatics
M Nov. 18th course Bioinformatics 2 Guest lecture (Andrew Webb). Working through a SNP calling pipeline with NGS data
W Nov. 20th course Setting up a bioinformatics pipeline Guest lecture (Andrew Webb). Using snakemake to do real work
Th Nov. 21st, F Nov. 22nd precept Snakemake
M Nov. 25th course Spatial data Dealing with shape formats and making maps
M Dec. 2th assignment Open science exercise is due Be on time!
M Dec. 2th course Phylogenetic Inference / Stats Guest lecture (Tiago Simoes). Using sequence data to uncover evolutionary relations
W Dec. 4th course Computer age statistical inference Basic hypothesis testing using permutations
Th Dec. 12th office hour Help on final assignment
Su Dec. 19th assignment Final assignment is due Be on time, 11:59pm!