Schedule

All assignments are due by 11:59pm on the due date.

Week Date Quiz Class Weekly HW Final Projects
1 Aug 26 Getting Started
Class orientation, intro to R, workflow, packages
HW 1
Due: Aug 31
2 Sep 02 Agentic Workflows
Intro to GitHub and agentic coding workflows
HW 2
Due: Sep 08
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
5 Sep 23 Quiz 2:
Week 3
Quarto & Plotting
Intro to "literate programming" with Quarto and plotting with {ggplot2}
HW 4
Due: Sep 28
6 Sep 30 Intro to surveydown
HW 5
Due: Oct 05
Pilot Survey
Due: Oct 13
7 Oct 07 Quiz 3:
Week 5
Conjoint Questions
Generating conjoint questions in R, implementing in surveydown
HW 6
Due: Oct 12
8 Oct 14 Utility Models
Intro to utility models, discrete vs. continuous parameters, parameter coding
HW 7
Due: Oct 19
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
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
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
15 Dec 02 Exam & Story Telling
Final exam (in class), then discuss tips for how to give a good talk
16 Dec 09 Final Presentations
In-class presentation showcase w/Q&A
Final Presentation
Due: Dec 08