| Week | Date | Quiz | Class | Weekly HW | Final Projects |
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| 1 | Aug 26 | Getting Started Class orientation, intro to R, workflow, packages |
HW 1 Due: Aug 31 |
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| 2 | Sep 02 | Agentic Workflows Intro to GitHub and agentic coding workflows |
HW 2 Due: Sep 08 |
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| 3 | Sep 09 | Quiz 1: Weeks 1-2 |
Data Wrangling Importing, wrangling, and summarizing data in R |
Work on Proposals! | Proposal Due: Sep 20 |
| 4 | Sep 16 | Team Proposal Workshops - no class One-on-one team meetings w/Prof. Helveston to scope semester project |
HW 3 Due: Sep 18 |
Survey Plan Due: Sep 29 |
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| 5 | Sep 23 | Quiz 2: Week 3 |
Quarto & Plotting Intro to "literate programming" with Quarto and plotting with {ggplot2} |
HW 4 Due: Sep 28 |
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| 6 | Sep 30 | Intro to surveydown |
HW 5 Due: Oct 05 |
Pilot Survey Due: Oct 13 |
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| 7 | Oct 07 | Quiz 3: Week 5 |
Conjoint Questions Generating conjoint questions in R, implementing in surveydown |
HW 6 Due: Oct 12 |
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| 8 | Oct 14 | Utility Models Intro to utility models, discrete vs. continuous parameters, parameter coding |
HW 7 Due: Oct 19 |
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| 9 | Oct 21 | Quiz 4: Week 8 |
Optimization & MLE Optimization, maximum likelihood estimation |
HW 8 Due: Oct 26 |
Pilot Analysis Due: Nov 01 |
| 10 | Oct 28 | Uncertainty Computing uncertainty in coefficient estimates |
HW 9 Due: Nov 02 |
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| 11 | Nov 04 | Quiz 5: Week 9 |
DOE & Power Analysis Designing your survey to reduce error |
HW 10 Due: Nov 09 |
Final Survey Due: Nov 15 |
| 12 | Nov 11 | WTP & Simulation Computing WTP, WTP space models, market simulations |
HW 11 Due: Nov 16 |
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| 13 | Nov 18 | Quiz 6: Week 12 |
Heterogeneity Modeling differences in preferences across sample population |
HW 12 Due: Nov 22 |
Final Analysis Due: Dec 06 |
| 14 | Nov 25 | Thanksgiving - no class |
HW 13 Due: Nov 29 |
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| 15 | Dec 02 | Exam & Story Telling Final exam (in class), then discuss tips for how to give a good talk |
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| 16 | Dec 09 | Final Presentations In-class presentation showcase w/Q&A |
Final Presentation Due: Dec 08 |
Schedule
All assignments are due by 11:59pm on the due date.