STA 35B course webpage: Statistical Data Science 2
Spring 2025
Instructor: Akira Horiguchi (ahoriguchi@ucdavis.edu)
Lectures: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM, (OLSON 205)
Labs: Run by TA: Muqing Cui (mqcui@ucdavis.edu)
- Section 001: Thursdays, 12:10 PM - 1:00 PM, (TLC 2212)
Final exam: Wednesday June 11, 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Office hours:
- Akira Horiguchi: Wednesdays, 2:50 PM - 3:50 PM, (Physical and Data Sciences Building 0003 – ignore the scary signs, Google Map)
- Muqing Cui: Mondays, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, (MSB 1117)
Syllabus: here
Piazza: here
Textbooks: There will be two textbooks used for the course, both of which are freely available online.
- Hadley Wickham, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, Garrett Grolemund. R for Data Science, 2nd edition [R4DS2]. https://r4ds.hadley.nz/
- Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel, Johanna Hardin. Introduction to Modern Statistics [IMS]. https://leanpub.com/imstat
Class Schedule
The exam, homework, and lab dates are set, but the lecture topics are subject to change.
| Week | Lecture Day | Topics | Slides | Additional references | Homework | Lab | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mar 31 (M) | Intro, review of R / dplyr | html | R4DS2 Ch3 | HW 0 released PDF Rmd | ||
| Apr 2 (W) | dplyr, tidy data | html | R4DS2 Ch3 | ||||
| Apr 4 (F) | Tidy data and transformations of logical vectors | html | R4DS2 Ch5 and Ch12 | Lab 1 released | |||
| 2 | Apr 7 (M) | Transformations of numbers | html | R4DS2 Ch13 | HW 0 due 9pm HW 1 released PDF Rmd | ||
| Apr 9 (W) | Transformations of strings | html | R4DS2 Ch14 | ||||
| Apr 11 (F) | Pattern matching of strings | html | R4DS2 Ch15 | Lab 1 due 9pm Lab 2 released | |||
| 3 | Apr 14 (M) | Dates and Times | html | R4DS2 Ch17 | HW 1 due 9pm HW 2 released PDF Rmd | ||
| Apr 16 (W) | Midterm 1 | ||||||
| Apr 18 (F) | Joins | html | R4DS2 Ch19 | Lab 2 due 9pm Lab 3 released | |||
| 4 | Apr 21 (M) | Functions 1 | html | R4DS2 Ch25 | HW 2 due 9pm HW 3 released PDF Rmd | ||
| Apr 23 (W) | Functions 2 | see above | R4DS2 Ch25 | ||||
| Apr 25 (F) | Visualization 1 | html | R4DS2 Ch9 | Lab 3 due 9pm Lab 4 released | |||
| 5 | Apr 28 (M) | Visualization 2 | see above | R4DS2 Ch10-11 | HW 3 due 9pm | ||
| Apr 30 (W) | Midterm 2 | ||||||
| May 2 (F) | Linear regression | html | IMS Ch7 | (Short) HW 4 released PDF Rmd | Lab 4 due 9pm Lab 5 released | ||
| 6 | May 5 (M) | Linear regression | html | IMS Ch8,10 | HW 4 due 9pm | ||
| May 7 (W) | Inference - randomization, bootstrapping | html html | IMS Ch11-12 | HW 5 released PDF Rmd | |||
| May 9 (F) | Inference - mathematical models | html | IMS Ch13 | Lab 5 due 9pm Lab 6 released | |||
| 7 | May 12 (M) | Inference for single proportion | html html | IMS Ch15-16 | HW 5 due 9pm | ||
| May 14 (W) | Inference for comparing 2 proportions | html | IMS Ch17 | HW 6 released PDF Rmd | |||
| May 16 (F) | Inference for single mean | html | IMS Ch19 | Lab 6 due 9pm Lab 7 released | |||
| 8 | May 19 (M) | No class | |||||
| May 21 (W) | No class | HW 6 due 9pm | |||||
| May 23 (F) | Inference for comparing 2 means | html | IMS Ch20 | Lab 7 due 9pm Lab 8 released | |||
| 9 | May 26 (M) | Memorial Day, no class | |||||
| May 28 (W) | Midterm 3 | HW 7 released PDF Rmd | |||||
| May 30 (F) | Inference for comparing 2+ means | html | IMS Ch22 | Lab 8 due 9pm | |||
| 10 | Jun 2 (M) | Inference for comparing 2+ means | |||||
| Jun 4 (W) | Inference for regression | html | IMS Ch24 | HW 7 due 9pm | |||
| 11 | Jun 11 (W) | Final exam: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM |