Practical Computing
and Data Science Tools

For 128 Michigan State University

Fall 2024

Week 9, October 20 - 26

• Wednesday office hours: 12:30 - 2:30

Week 8, October 13 - 19

Week 7, October 6 - 12

Week 6, September 29 - October 5

• Midterm I this week.

Week 5, September 22 - 28

Extra office hours this week:

• Monday 9/23: 10:30am - 11:30am
• Tuesday 9/24: 10am - 11am (note the 30 minute change)
• Wednesday 9/25: 12:30pm - 2pm
• Thursday 9/26: 1:30pm - 2:30pm (regular time)

Week 4, September 15 - 21

Tuesday

• The lecture notes are available.

Week 3, September 8 - 14

Tuesday

• We’ll go through vectors.qmd in class.

Thursday

• Lecture materials:
  • In-class work: vectors_dataframes.qmd
  • Data for in-class work: Loblolly.csv
• Supplementary lab materials:
  • Example R script lab setup: lab_03_example.R
  • Lab 3 data: FEF_trees.csv

Week 2, September 1 - 7

Tuesday

• Office hours will be moved to 1:30 - 2:30 today.

• Lab 1 is due Wednesday on D2L.

Thursday

Week 1, August 25 - 31

Tuesday

• Before coming to class, please read the syllabus.

• No lecture ticket today.

Thursday

• We’ll have a lecture ticket due at the beginning of class. See the assignments page.

• Lab 1, also available on the assignments page, will be assigned.