SOCIOL 333: Quantitative Analaysis of Sociological Data

Instructor: Aidan Combs

This page contains an outline of the topics, content, and assignments for the semester. Note that this schedule will be updated as the semester progresses and the timeline of topics and assignments might be updated throughout the semester.

Week	Date	Topic	Read	Bring	Due	Exercise
1	Wed, May 17	Welcome! Course info				Getting to know you survey
	Thu, May 18	Data and variables	IMS ch 1			Variable types
2	Mon, May 22	Intro to the computing workflow				Computing setup test
	Tue, May 23	Project and research questions				Research questions
	Wed, May 24	Studies and samples	IMS ch 2			Studies and samples
	Thu, May 25	Workshopping project proposals		Component 1 draft
3	Mon, May 29	No class. Happy Memorial Day!
	Tue, May 30	Summary statistics			Component 1: proposal	Summary statistics
	Wed, May 31	Filtering data frames	IMS ch 4			Summary statistics; filtering
	Thu, Jun 1	Creating new variables	IMS ch 5			Creating variables
4	Mon, Jun 5	Pipes
	Tue, Jun 6	Plotting one variable				Plotting one variable
	Wed, Jun 7	Plotting relationships between variables	IMS ch 6
	Thu, Jun 8	Hypothesis testing pt 1	IMS ch 11 and ch 13		Component 2: Descriptive statistics	Null and alternative hypotheses
5	Mon, Jun 12	Hypothesis testing pt 2				Z scores
	Tue, Jun 13	Hypothesis testing pt 3				Hypothesis testing
	Wed, Jun 14	Hypothesis testing pt 4				Hypothesis testing 2
	Thu, Jun 15	Interpreting results		Component 3 draft		Interpreting results
6	Mon, Jun 19	No class. Happy Juneteenth!
	Tue, Jun 20	Limitations and future research			Component 3: Results
	Wed, Jun 21	Best practices	Science Isn’t Broken
	Thu, Jun 22	Final project presentations			Component 4: Presentation (start)
7	Mon, Jun 26	Final project presentations; workshop final papers		Component 5 draft	Component 4: Presentation (finish)
	Wed, Jun 28	No class; final paper due			Component 5: Final paper