Spring 2025 Schedule of Topics

Location:  Bohannon Hall 104

🗓️ Friday, March 28th 🕒 3:00 - 4:45 pm Introduction to R for Data Science  [ 📥 R Script ]

• What is R, and why use it?

• Basic operations, data types, and data structures

• Data wrangling via the tidyverse packages

• Importing and exporting data files 

• [Video Recording]

🗓️ Friday, April 4th 🕝 2:30 - 4:15 pm Professional Data Visualization in R   [ 📥 R Script ]

• Brief tour of base R graphics

• Data visualization via the ggplot2 package

• Plot types, customizations, and extensions

• Exporting plots as image files 

• [Video Recording]

🗓️ Friday, April 11th 🕛  N/A No R Group Meeting This Week

• NCUR Conference (Pittsburgh, PA)

• MPA Conference (Chicago, IL)

🗓️ Friday, April 18th 🕝 2:30 - 4:15 pm General Linear Models in R   [ 📥 R Script ]

• t-tests

• ANOVAs

• Linear regression

• Decomposing and visualizing interactions

• [Video Recording]

🗓️ Friday, April 25th 🕝 2:30 - 4:15 pm Factor Analysis in R   [ 📥 R Script ]

• Correlations and APA-ready tables

• PCA vs. EFA

• Scree plots and parallel analysis

• CFA via the lavaan package

• [Video Recording]