A course in quantitative research workflow for students in the higher education administration program at the University of Florida
Prior to first meeting, please follow the software link to download and install all relevant software.
In the schedule below, items are marked as follows:
Weeks begin on Monday and end on Sunday. Assignments are due on Sunday evening by 11:59 p.m. EDT in the week noted.
| Week | Topic |
|---|---|
| Week 1 (5/11 - 5/17) |
> Course welcome > Getting and installing required software > Introduction to R > Introduction to Markdown |
| Week 2 (5/18 - 5/24) |
> Organizing a script and project directory + Supplemental: Getting higher education data from common sources < Assignment 1 |
| Week 3 (5/25 - 5/31) |
> Data wrangling I: Enter the Tidyverse + Supplemental: Data wrangling with base R < Assignment 2 < Final project: proposal |
| Week 4 (6/1 - 6/7) |
> Data wrangling II: Appending, joining, and reshaping data < Assignment 3 |
| Week 5 (6/8 - 6/14) |
> Data visualization with ggplot2 < Assignment 4 |
| Week 6 (6/15 - 6/21) |
> Creating research reports with RMarkdown < Assignment 5 < Supplemental problem sets so far (if any) |
| NO CLASS | TWO WEEK BREAK (6/22 - 7/5) |
| Week 7 (7/6 - 7/12) |
> Data wrangling III: Working with strings and dates < Assignment 6 < Final project: initial set of analyses |
| Week 8 (7/13 - 7/19) |
> Inferential tests and models < Assignment 7 |
| Week 9 (7/20 - 7/26) |
> Functional programming < Assignment 8 |
| Week 10 (7/27 - 8/2) |
> Data wrangling IV: A philosophy of data wrangling < Assignment 9 < Final project: draft of final report |
| Week 11 (8/3 - 8/9) |
+ Supplemental: Webscraping < Assignment 10 |
| Week 12 (8/10 - 8/14) |
+ Supplemental: Interactive graphics < Final project: final report < Supplemental problem sets from after break (if any) |