Interested in taking STAT 545A and/or STAT 547M, and have questions? Read on!
September - December of each academic year.
Typical format: STAT 545A 1.5 credits in September through mid October, followed by STAT 547M 1.5 credits from mid October through early December.
Same time slot, same room.
For several years, Jenny taught STAT 545A as a 1.5 credit course. She – and many students – felt there was alot of great, relevant content that could go into an additional 1.5 credits.
A full semester of data exploration, visualization, and all-around data wrangling was piloted in 2014/2015. And so far, it has stuck. It was structured as two half courses primarily so that several year’s worth of STAT 545A alums could register for STAT 547M and get the “missing half” of the course. And now it’s hard to break the cycle.
knitr
and R Markdown for dynamic documents, ggplot2
for graphics, dplyr
for data aggregation.This course is open to any graduate student at UBC. Students from other departments vastly outnumber those from Statistics. In fact, the most successful students are often grad students from other fields who need to analyze and visualize data for a thesis. They are highly motivated and excel.
However, if you have never programmed or worked at the command line before, prepare for a shock. This will be a powerful, positive experience, but it’s a big adjustment. Come suffer through the worst part of the learning curve in good company!
YES. You absolutely must have access to a computer on which you can install software, download data, etc. In fact, class meetings will be a mix of lecture, discussion, and live coding. Students will get the most out of this if they can bring their own laptop to class every day. If this is not possible, we will try to help you work something out.
The STAT 545 Twitter account is no longer used for this course.