Semester Schedule

Week 1 (...)

Wednesday:
- Introductions
  - Zoom, Slack, Blackboard & the Syllabus
- For next time:
  - Getting Started with GitHub, Markdown & Webstorm
Friday:
- Using GitHub & Markdown
- For next time:
  - Installing R & RStudio

Week 2 (...)

Monday:
- Using RStudio
- For next time:
  - Getting Started with R & RStudio
Wednesday:
- Using RStudio
Friday: add/drop period ends
- Using RStudio

Week 3 (...)

Monday:
- Project 1 Projecting, Plotting and Labelling Administrative Subdivisions
Wednesday:
- Project 1 Projecting, Plotting and Labelling Administrative Subdivisions
Friday: Open

Week 4 (...)

Monday:
- Project 1 Projecting, Plotting and Labelling Administrative Subdivisions
Wednesday:
- Project 1 Projecting, Plotting and Labelling Administrative Subdivisions
Friday:
- Data Science Reflection #1
  - Don’t forget people in the use of big data for development, Joshua Blumenstock. Nature: Sept. 10, 2018
Sunday: Project 1 due at midnight
- Project 1 deliverable:
  - Challenge Question
- Project 1 extra credit:

Week 5 (...)

Monday:
- Project 2 Extracting Populations from a Raster and Aggregating to each Unit
Wednesday:
- Project 2 Extracting Populations from a Raster and Aggregating to each Unit
Friday:
- Project 2 Extracting Populations from a Raster and Aggregating to each Unit

Week 6 (...)

Monday:
- Project 2 Creating a Geometric Bar Plot with your Simple Feature object
Wednesday:
- Project 2 Creating a Geometric Bar Plot with your Simple Feature object
Friday: Open Session / Workshop (3/5)
Sunday: Project 2 due at midnight
- Project 2 deliverable:
  - Challenge Question
- Project 2 extra credit:

Week 7 (...)

Monday:
- Data Science Reflection #2
  - The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete, Chris Anderson. Wired: June 23, 2008
  - Big Data, new epistemologies and paradigm shifts, Rob Kitchin. Big Data & Society: April 1, 2014
Wednesday:
- Project 3 Acquiring, Modifying and Describing the Data
Friday:
- Project 3 Acquiring, Modifying and Describing the Data

Week 8 (...)

Monday:
- Project 3 Acquiring, Modifying and Describing the Data
Wednesday: Open
Friday:
- Project 3 Modeling & Predicting Spatial Values

Week 9 (...)

Monday:
- Stretch Goal
Wednesday:
- Stretch Goal
Friday:
- Data Science Reflection #3
  - Development and Complexity by Owen Barder
Sunday: Project 3 due at midnight
- Project 3 Deliverables:
  - Challenge Question 1
  - Challenge Question 2
- Project 3 Extra Credit:
  - Challenge Question 3
  - Stretch Goal 1

Week 10 (...)

Monday:
- Project 4 Modeling & Predicting Spatial Values
Wednesday:
- Project 4 Modeling & Predicting Spatial Values
Friday:
- Project 4 Modeling & Predicting Spatial Values

Week 11 (...)

Monday:
- Project 4 Modeling & Predicting Spatial Values
Wednesday: Open
Friday:
- Project 4 Investigating and Comparing Results

Week 12 (...)

Monday:
- Project 4 Investigating and Comparing Results
Wednesday:
- Project 4 Investigating and Comparing Results
Friday:
- Project 4 Investigating and Comparing Results
Sunday: Project 4 due at midnight
- Project 4 Deliverables:
  - Individual (Not Team) Challenge Question
  - Project 2. Individual Deliverable
- Project 4 Extra Credit:
  - Stretch Goal 1
  - Stretch Goal 2

Week 13 (...)

Monday:
- Project 5
Wednesday:
- Project 5
Friday:
- Data Science Reflection #4
  - Scale by Geoff West

Week 14 (...)

Monday: Open
Wednesday:
- Project 5
Friday:
- Project 5

Week 15 (...)

Monday:
- Final Project
Wednesday:
- Final Project
Friday: Last day of class
- Data Science Reflection #5
- Project 5 benchmark
  - Accessibility 1
  - Accessibility 2

Final

Final Project is due on the last day of the finals period at 5PM.
- Combination of Accessibility 1, 2 & 3
  - Accessibility 3
    - Deliverable for Final Project