Week 1: The Computational Core

This week introduces the course, as well as some core computational tools used in data science, including directories, programming and version control.

Lecture Slides   Supporting Code  

Additional resources

• Wickham, Hadley. Nd. Advanced R, 2nd ed. Ch 3, Names and values, Chapter 4, Vectors, and Chapter 5, Subsetting. (Ch. 2-3 of the print edition)

• GitHub Docs, especially: “About GitHub and Git”, “Hello World”, and “GitHub flow”.

• GitHub. “Basic formatting syntax” (a markdown cheatsheet).

• Markdown Guide. “Markdown Cheat Sheet.”

• Nelson, Meghan. 2015. “An Intro to Git and GitHub for Beginners (Tutorial).”