Week 1: Introduction
Assignment: Very Basic Data in R (Due Week 2)
Due This Week: Problem Set 1: Hello & Welcome to R
Readings
Lecture: Course Introduction
- Recommended reference reading:
- DV, chapter 1
- RDS chapter 2
- FCSP chapters 1-2
- We will not cover all of this material in ch 2 this week; don’t get too caught up on things not in course slides or course R scripts
- DMSS chapters 1-2
- Ignore, for now, things that relate to Database Management Systems (DBSMs) or SQL
- The Plain Person’s Guide to Plain Text Social Science, ch 1-2 (https://plain-text.co/index.html)
- Note: The Plain Person’s Guide is a little out of date techinically - some of the tools discussed have newer, and better, versions - but the overlying principles and philosophy are what you should pay attention to
Data & Computational Work
If you haven’t yet followed the instructions for installing R & RStudio under “preliminaries”, now is the time to do so.