Front Matter
Welcome to Data Science for Psychologists
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I Module 00
Don’t Miss Module 00
Assignment Guidance
- 0.6 Materials
- 0.7 Portfolio Instructions
  - 0.7.1 EDA as Practice
  - 0.7.2 Additional Ground Rules
II Module 01
1 Welcome to Data Science
- 1.1 Module Materials
  - 1.1.1 Estimated Video Length
2 LEC: What is Data Science?
3 ACT: UN voting
4 LEC: Meet our toolbox
5 ACT: Bechdel
6 ACT: Oh My Git! Version Control Challenge
7 LEC: Thoughtful Workflow
8 RDD: R basics and workflows
9 RDD: Quick Starting with Github
10 LAB: Hello R!
- About The Hello R Lab
- Lab Goals
11 Aloha R!
12 Zdravo R!
- Packages
- Data
- Exercises
- Stretch goal
III Module 02
13 Welcome to Data and Visualization
- 13.1 Module Materials
  - 13.1.1 Estimated Video Length
14 LEC: Exploratory Data Analysis
- 14.1 What is in a dataset?
  - 14.1.1 Why do we visualize?
- 14.2 What we learned
15 LEC: Visualizing data with ggplot2
- 15.1 Learning goals for ggplot2
- 15.2 ggplot2 and aesthetics
16 LEC: Visualizing numerical data
- 16.1 Looking at Data
- 16.2 More on visualizing numerical data
  - 16.2.1 What we learned about visualizing numerical data
17 LEC: Visualizing categorical data
18 ACT: Star Wars Activity
- 18.0.1 What we learned about visualizing categorical data
19 ODD: Basic care and feeding of data in R
20 RDD: More on GITing Started with Github
21 LAB: Global plastic waste
- Learning goals
- Getting started
  - Packages
  - Data
- Warm up
- Exercises
- Wrapping up
IV Module 03
22 Welcome to the tidyverse!
- 22.1 Module Materials
- 22.2 Estimated Video Length
23 LEC: Tidy data
- 23.1 Data structures in R
24 LEC: Grammar of data wrangling
- 24.1 Piping
25 RDD: Introduction to dplyr
26 LEC: Hands on Data Wrangling
27 LEC: Working with multiple data frames
- 27.1 Case Studies in Joining
28 ODD: Merges and Collaboration
29 LAB: Nobel laureates
V Module 04
30 Welcome to Data Diving with Types
- 30.1 Module Materials
- 30.2 Estimated Video Length
31 LEC: Data types and recoding
- 31.1 Why should you care about data types?
- 31.2 Data types
32 ACT: Another Hotels
33 LEC: Special Values
- 33.1 Data classes
34 LEC: Working with factors
35 ACT: (An) Another Hotels
36 LEC: Working with Dates
37 LEC: Importing data
38 ODD: Writing and reading files
39 ACT: Data Import
40 ODD: Data Transformations and Tukey’s Ladder of Powers
41 LAB: Visualizing spatial data
VI Module 05
42 Welcome to Tips for Effective Data Visualization
- 42.1 Module Materials
- 42.2 Estimated Video Length
43 LEC: Designing effective visualizations
- 43.1 Principles for effective visualizations
44 LEC: Deeper Diving into ggplot2
45 RDD: Plots Behaving Badly: Lessons in Data Misrepresentation
46 ODD: Design choices in data visualization
47 ODD: Secrets of a happy graphing life
48 ODD: Writing figures to file
49 LAB: Wrangling spatial data
VII Module 06
50 Welcome to Confounding and Communication!
- 50.1 Module Materials
- 50.2 Video Length
51 LEC: Scientific studies and confounding
52 LEC: Communicating data science results effectively
53 LAB: Ugly charts and Simpson’s paradox
VIII Module 07
54 Welcome to web scraping and APIs!
- 54.1 Module Materials
- 54.2 Estimated Video Length
55 LEC: Scraping the web
56 ODD: Data usually finds me
57 LEC: Use API-wrapping packages
58 ODD: DIY web data
59 LAB: Better Viz
IX Module 08
60 Welcome to Functions and Automation
- 60.1 Module Materials
61 LEC: Functions
62 LEC: Automation
- 62.1 Code Along pt 3
- 62.2 Math to Coding
63 RDD: Write your own R functions
64 RDD: Where were we? Where are we going?
65 Function-writing practicum
66 LAB: University of Edinburgh Art Collection
X Module 09
67 Welcome to Data and Ethics
- 67.1 Module Materials
68 LEC: Data Science and Ethics
69 LEC: Bias
70 ODD: Society and AI
- 70.1 Curated Videography
  - 70.1.1 Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
71 LAB: Ethics in Data Science
XI Module 10
72 Welcome to modeling the tidy way!
- 72.1 Module Materials
73 LEC: Language of Models
- 73.1 What is a model?
- 73.2 Modeling the relationship between variables
74 LEC: Fitting and interpreting models
- 74.1 Models with numerical explanatory variables
- 74.2 A More Technical Worked Example
75 LEC: Models with FOO
- 75.1 Models with categorical explanatory variables
- 75.2 Modeling non-linear relationships
76 Modeling with multiple predictors
77 ODD: Notes on Logistic Regression
- 77.1 Predicting categorical data
- 77.2 Sensitivity and specificity
78 LAB: Modeling professor attractiveness and course evaluations
XII Module 11
79 Welcome to Overfitting and Cross-Validation
- 79.1 Module Materials
80 LEC: Overfitting
- 80.1 Prediction
- 80.2 Workflow
81 LEC: Cross-Validation
- 81.1 V-Fold
82 ODD: Feature Engineering
83 ODD: Notes on Cross validation
84 LAB: Cross Validation in Action
XIII Module 12
85 Welcome to Quantifying Uncertainty
- 85.1 Module Materials
86 LEC: Quantifying Uncertainty
87 LEC: Bootstrapping
88 ODD: Notes on Hypothesis Testing
89 LAB: So what if you smoke when pregnant?
XIV Module 13
90 Welcome to Base R and Simulating Data
- 90.1 Module Materials
- 90.2 Estimated Video Length
91 LEC: Getting started with simulating data in R
92 ODD: Getting Started with Data Simulations in R
93 LAB: Simulating data
XV Module 14
94 Welcome to Large Language Models
- 94.1 Module Materials
- 94.2 Estimated Video Length
95 LEC: What are Large Language Models?
- 95.1 Data Science and LLMs
96 LEC: Applications of Large Language Models in Data Science
- 96.1 Use Cases in Data Science
  - 96.1.1 R Example: Text Classification (Sentiment Analysis)
  - 96.1.2 Text Generation (Simple Markov Chain)
97 ACT: Working with OpenAI’s API
XVI Module 15
98 Welcome to interactive web apps
- 98.1 Module Materials
99 LEC: RShiny Overview
100 ODD: Practical Advice from the Data Professor
101 LEC: All the Shiny things
102 Shiny Resources
- 102.1 Awesome add-on packages to Shiny
XVII Module 16
103 Special Topics: Reproducible reports
- 103.1 Module Materials
104 LAB: Efficient Workflow with R Projects and R Markdown
105 Basic Syntax
106 Parameterized Reports
XVIII Module 17
107 Special Topics: Machine, Learn
- 107.1 Module Materials
108 Neural Networks
- 108.1 What is a Neural Network?
- 108.2 How does it learn?
  - 108.2.1 Teaching A.I. to Play My Game
  - 108.2.2 Stickman A.I. Learns To Walk
109 Natural Language Processing
XIX Module Last
Don’t Miss The Last Module
- 109.1 Important Wake Forest Stuff
- 109.2 What Next?
  - 109.2.1 Industry Transition Stories
XX Workshop
Workshop Links
110 LAB: Optional Lab
111 LAB: Academic Freedom
- Learning goals
- Getting started and warming up
XXI Back Matter
112 Good Resources
- 112.1 Cheatsheets
113 Media without a home yet
114 R Commands
References
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Data Science for Psychologists

73 LEC: Language of Models

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73.1 What is a model?

73.2 Modeling the relationship between variables