Schedule

Schedule and course materials for Statistical Programming Paradigms and Workflows (JHSPH Biostatistics 140.840 Fall 2022).

Schedule and course materials

For Rmd files, go to the course GitHub repository and navigate the directories, or best of all to clone the repo and navigate within RStudio.

Week	Dates	Topics	Projects
Module 1		Statistical programming at the command-line
Week 1	Oct 27	Course introduction [syllabus]	🌴 Project 1 [html] [Qmd]
		Building websites with quarto [html] [Qmd]
Week 2	Nov 1	Introduction to the command-line [html] [Qmd]
	Nov 3	More advanced command-line tools [html] [Qmd]
Week 3	Nov 8	Version control (git) [html] [Qmd]	🌴 Project 2 [html] [Qmd]
	Nov 10	Version control (GitHub) [html] [Qmd]
	Nov 11		🍂 Project 1 due
Module 2		R software development
Week 4	Nov 15	Object Oriented Programming [html] [Qmd]
	Nov 17	R package software development [html] [Qmd]
Week 5	Nov 22	🦃 Class is canceled
	Nov 24	🦃 No lecture, enjoy the break!
	Nov 25
Module 3		Advanced programming paradigms
Week 6	Nov 29	Functional programming with purrr [html] [Qmd]	🍂 Project 2 due 🌴 Project 3 [html] [Qmd]
	Dec 1	Project management with targets [html] [Qmd]
		Package website with pkgdown [html] [Qmd]
Week 7	Dec 6	Retrieving data from APIs [html] [Qmd]
	Dec 8	Relational databases and SQL basics [html] [Qmd]
Module 4		Interactive web apps and dashboards
Week 8	Dec 13	Building dashboards with flexdashboard and shinydashboard [html] [Qmd]	🍂 Project 3 due 🌴 Project 4 [html] [Qmd]
	Dec 15	Scraping data from the web with rvest [html] [Qmd]
Module 5		Dealing with “big” data
Week 9	Dec 20	Profiling R code [html] [Qmd]
		Strategies for dealing with large data [html] [Qmd]
	Dec 22	❄️ Class is canceled
	Dec 23		🍂 Project 4 due