INFO 201 A: Technical Foundations in Informatics

Summer 2019 | Mon/Wed 12:40-5:40 BLD 070 | Lab Tues 4:10-6:20 MGH 430

Instructor & TA Information

Chris Holstrom
cholstro@uw.edu
Office Hours: Thur 1:00-3:00 in MGH 310 (Datalab)

Ashley Varma
av28@uw.edu
Office Hours: Tues 2:00-4:00 in MGH 440 (TE Lab)

Quick Links

Course Schedule

Week 1 (June 24-30): Welcome, Command Line, Version Control, and Markdown, Intro to R

Slides and/or documents

Monday: lecture-1-intro
Monday: lecture-2-git-markdown
Wednesday: lecture-3-r-intro

Readings

Tuesday: Chapters 1-4
Wednesday: Chapters 5-6

Quizzes

Tuesday: Reading Quiz 1

Assignments

Thursday: a1-news

Week 2 (July 1-7): Vectors and Lists, Data and Dataframes

Slides and/or documents

Monday: lecture-4-vectors-lists
Wednesday: lecture-5-6-dataframes

Readings

Monday: Chapters 7-8
Wednesday: Chapters 9-10

Quizzes

Monday: Reading Quiz 2
Wednesday: Reading Quiz 3

Assignments

Monday: Project Brainstorm
Wednesday: a2-core-skills

Week 3 (July 8-14): Data Wrangling, Data Visualization, R Markdown, and git Collaboration

Slides and/or documents

Monday: lecture-7-data-wrangling
Monday: lecture-8-git-collaboration
Wednesday: lecture-9-viz-design
- ggplot-slide-examples.R
Wednesday: lecture-10-rmarkdown

Readings

Monday: Chapters 11-12
Wednesday: Chapters 15, 16, 18

Quizzes

Monday: Reading Quiz 4
Wednesday: Reading Quiz 5

Assignments

Tuesday: a3-using-data
Friday: a4-data-wrangling

Week 4 (July 15-21): APIs and Interactive Visualizations

Slides and/or documents

Monday: lecture-11-apis
- api-slides.R
Wednesday: lecture-12-interactive-visualization
- leaflet_ggplot_maps.R

Readings

Monday: Chapters 14 and 17
Wednesday: Chapter 20

Quizzes

Monday: Reading Quiz 6

Assignments

Tuesday: Midpoint Deliverable
Friday: a5-data-report OR a6-api-report

Week 5 (July 22-24): Shiny, Machine Learning, Project Fair, and Wrap Up

Slides and/or documents

Monday: lecture-13-shiny-2
Monday: lecture-14-html-css
- shiny-a1-v0: app.R, pedestrian-safety.jpg (must be in www subdirectory)
- shiny-a1-v1: app.R, lpi.html, pedestrian-safety.jpg (must be in www subdirectory)
- shiny-a1-v2: app.R, pedestrian-safety.jpg (must be in www subdirectory)
Wednesday: lecture-15-machine-learning
Wednesday: lecture-16-wrap-up

Readings

Monday: Chapters 19-20

Quizzes

Monday: Reading Quiz 7

Assignments

Wednesday: Final Deliverable
Wednesday: Peer Evaluation

Course originally designed by Mike Freeman.

INFO 201 A Su 19: Technical Foundations