Stat 240 - Intro to Data Science - Spring 2017

Dr. David Campbell

Week 1 Day 1 notes:

Data acquisition and cleaning

COURSE CONTENT:

R:  Introduction to RStudio

Data types

SQL:  Using RSQLite

Performing operations on the database

Temporary databases

Twitter:  Accessing Twitter data from the API

Sentiment Analysis

Dealing with time

Dealing with text

Regular expressions

Webscraping: Dealing with html code

writing a web crawler to parse html

extracting tables from html

JSON formatted data

Using an API to scrape JSON data

Statistical visualizations:

Density plots

Histograms

Barcharts

Boxplots

Wordclouds

Conditional plots

Scatter plots

Statistical tools:

Density estimation

Moving average

Data summaries