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January 7th, 2025

An Introduction to generative AI and development tools

A brief introduction to modern development tools. Integrated development environments. Language server protocol. Generative code assistant tools.

February 13th, 2025

An introduction to data transformation

Overview of data transformation activities. Data frames. Distinct values. Selecting, renaming, and mutating variables. Filtering and arranging data. Data pivoting.

February 13th, 2025

An introduction to data visualization

A top-down introduction to the basic concepts of data visualization. Layers, aesthetics and geometric objects. Coloring. Scatter plots. Bars, histograms, and density plots. Box plots.

An introduction to importing data

Comma-separated vales format. Importing data from the disk or the web. Relative and absolute paths. An overview of other data file formats.

More on data transformation

A follow-up look on data transformation topics. Boolean columns. Discretizing continuous variables. Counting observations. Groupwise operations. Summarizing. Slicing operations. Accessing columns. Combining data with joins.

More on data visualization

More details on data visualization. Know-how and -why of aesthetics. Basic themes and extensions. Guides: axes, labels, scales, breaks, and legends. Statistical transformations. Text and annotations.

February 14th, 2025

Setting up the development environment

A concise step-by-step guide on how to set up the tools and folders needed for the course.

January 15th, 2025