Schedule

Schedule and course materials for Statistical Programming Paradigms and Workflows (JHSPH Biostatistics 140.777 Fall 2023).

Schedule and course materials

For Qmd 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 26	Course introduction [syllabus]	🌴 Project 1 [html] [Qmd]
		Building websites with quarto [html] [Qmd]
Week 2	Oct 31	Introduction to the command-line [html] [Qmd]
	Nov 2	More advanced command-line tools [html] [Qmd]
Week 3	Nov 7	Version control (git) [html] [Qmd]	🌴 Project 2 [html] [Qmd]
	Nov 9	Version control (GitHub) [html] [Qmd]
	Nov 10		🍂 Project 1 due
Module 2		R software development
Week 4	Nov 14	Object Oriented Programming [html] [Qmd]
	Nov 16	More OOP
Week 5	Nov 21	R package software development [html] [Qmd]
	Nov 23	🦃 No lecture, enjoy the break!
	Nov 24
Module 3		Advanced programming paradigms
Week 6	Nov 28	Functional programming with purrr [html] [Qmd]	🍂 Project 2 due 🌴 Project 3 [html] [Qmd]
	Nov 30	Package website with pkgdown [html] [Qmd]
Week 7	Dec 5	Retrieving data from APIs [html] [Qmd]
	Dec 7	Relational databases and SQL basics [html] [Qmd]
Module 4		Interactive web apps and dashboards
Week 8	Dec 12	Building dashboards with flexdashboard and shinydashboard [html] [Qmd]	🍂 Project 3 due 🌴 Project 4 [html] [Qmd]
	Dec 14	Scraping data from the web with rvest [html] [Qmd]
Module 5		Dealing with “big” data
Week 9	Dec 19	Strategies for dealing with large data [html] [Qmd]
	Dec 21	❄️ Class is canceled
	Dec 22		🍂 Project 4 due