Fall 2022 BUS 320 Syllabus
Subject to revision (last updated: Aug 23, 2022)
This is an applied course that builds upon knowledge acquired from lower-division statistics coursework. It exposes students to the research and data analysis practices executed in the business world. A focus of this course is on generating reproducible analyses using the R programming language.
| Date | Topic | |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 22 | 0: Introduction | |
| Aug 29 | 1: Introduction/R/RStudio | due at 5 PM |
| Sep 12 | 2: R/RStudio and create a blog | due at 5 PM |
| Sep 19 | 3: Data manipulation / descriptive analysis I | due at 5 PM |
| Sep 26 | 4: Reading and writing data | due at 5 PM |
| Oct 3 | 5: Data manipulation / descriptive analysis II | due at 5 PM |
| Oct 10 | 6: Data manipulation / joining data | due at 5 PM |
| Oct 17 | 7: Exploratory analysis / data visualization I | due at 5 PM |
| Oct 24 | 8: Exploratory analysis / data visualization II | due at 5 PM |
| Oct 31 | 9: Data visualization / storytelling | due at 5 PM |
| Nov 7 | 10: Machine learning | due at 5 PM |
| Nov 14 | 11: Inference / sampling | due at 5 PM |
| Nov 21 | 12: Inference / bootstrapping | due at 5 PM |
| Nov 28 | 13: Inference / hypothesis testing | due at 5 PM |
| Dec 5 | 14: Project | due at 5 PM |
| Dec 12 | 15: Project | due at 5 PM |
There are 1070 possible points in the course (70 are extra credit points). Your grade will be determined by your total points:
| Grade | Points |
|---|---|
| A | 950 |
| A- | 900 |
| B+ | 870 |
| B | 830 |
| B- | 800 |
| C+ | 770 |
| C | 730 |
| C- | 700 |
| D+ | 670 |
| D | 600 |
| Activity | Total Points |
|---|---|
| Quizzes | 390 |
| Assignments | 330 |
| Attendance | 150 |
| Final Project | 200 |
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