Course Schedule

SOCI 3040 | Quantitative Research Methods

In the table below,

  • refers to Alexander’s (2023) Telling Stories with Data (required)
  • refers to Healy’s (2019) Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction (supplementary / optional)
  • refers to McElreath’s (2023) Statistical Rethinking 2023 Lectures (supplementary / optional)

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No. Class Date Class & Lab Notes + Slides Required Recommended Due by 5:00 pm
01 1/7/25 Introduction + Telling Stories with Data Browse this site    
02 1/9/25 Telling Stories with Data + R & the Tidyverse Ch 1 Appendix A  
03 1/14/25 Data Analysis Workflow – The Firehose Ch 2 Ch 1  
04 1/16/25 Data Analysis Workflow – The Firehose Ch 2 Ch 1  
05 1/21/25 Reproducible Workflows with R & RStudio Ch 3 Ch 2  
06 1/23/25 Reproducible Workflows with R & RStudio Ch 3 Ch 2  
07 1/28/25 Writing and Developing Research Questions Ch 4 Ch 3  
08 1/30/25 Writing and Developing Research Questions Ch 4 Ch 3 Data Stories 1
09 2/4/25 Creating Graphs, Tables, & Maps Ch 5 Ch 4  
10 2/6/25 Review Class Ch 5 Ch 4  
11 2/11/25 Measurement, Censuses, and Sampling Ch 6 Ch 5  
12 2/13/25 Measurement, Censuses, and Sampling Ch 6 Ch 5  
13 2/18/25 Measurement, Censuses, and Sampling Ch 7 Ch 7  
14 2/20/25 APIs, Scraping, and Parsing Ch 7 Ch 7  
15 3/4/25 APIs, Scraping, and Parsing Ch 8 Ch 8  
16 3/6/25 APIs, Scraping, and Parsing Ch 8 Ch 8  
17 3/11/25 Cleaning, Preparing, and Testing Ch 9 Statistical Golems Data Stories 2
18 3/13/25 Cleaning, Preparing, and Testing Ch 9 Statistical Golems  
19 3/18/25 Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) Ch 11 The Garden of Forking Data  
20 3/20/25 Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) Ch 11 The Garden of Forking Data Data Stories 3
21 3/25/25 Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) Ch 11 Geocentric Models  
22 3/27/25 Linear Models Ch 12 Geocentric Models  
23 4/1/25 Linear Models Ch 12 Ch 6  
24 4/3/25 Linear Models Ch 12 Ch 6  
25 4/8/25 Project Work     Data Stories 4
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References

Alexander, Rohan. 2023. Telling Stories with Data: With Applications in R. Chapman; Hall/CRC.
Healy, Kieran. 2019. Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction. Princeton University Press.
McElreath, Richard. 2023. β€œStatistical Rethinking Lectures.” YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDcUM9US4XdPz-KxHM4XHt7uUVGWWVSus.