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Last updated: Tue Feb 10 2026, 10:00

Syllabus

Welcome to the course website for STA 230, Introduction to Data Science. To begin, you can find the course syllabus linked below:

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Course Materials

Labs

Date Slides Lab Due Date
Tue 1/19 Introduction Introduction 1/29 at 10pm
Thur 1/21 ggplot (see next)
Tue 1/27 ggplot2 (cont.) 2/3 at 10pm
Thur 1/29 dplyr 2/5 at 10pm
Tue 2/3 tidyr
Thur 2/5 Pivot Visual Aid tidyr cont. 2/10 at 10pm
Tue 2/10 Joins Joins
Thur 2/12 Joins 2/17 at 10pm
Tue 2/17 Strings + Regex
Thur 2/19 Factors
Tue 2/24 Date + Time
Thur 2/26 Tidy Selection
Tue 3/3 EDA
Thur 3/5 EDA
Spring Break

Homework

Reading Assignment Due Date
R4DS Introduction, Ch 1-3 Homework 1 Thur 1/29 at 10pm
R4DS 4, 5, 19 Homework 2 Thur 2/12 at 10pm