PLNT6530|01 - Calendar
Winter 2026
Lecture Schedule
- Days: Wednesdays and Fridays
- Time: 11:30 am - 12:50 pm
- Location: CRSC 121B
Calendar
The course runs on Wednesdays and Fridays from 1:00 PM to 2:20 PM. Below is the tentative schedule. Please, note the schedule may vary depending on the progress of the class.
| Week | Date | Topic | Material | Lesson |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jan 7 | Introductions, Reproducibility | 🌐 | 🎥 |
| Jan 09 | Essentials of Quarto and R | 🌐 | 🎥 | |
| 2 | Jan 14 | Fundamentals of R packages | 🌐 | 🎥 |
| Jan 16 | Basics of version control & GitHub | 🌐 | 🎥 | |
| 3 | Jan 21 | Data Wrangling I | 🌐 | 🎥 |
| Jan 23 | Data Wrangling II | 🌐 | 🎥 | |
| 4 | Jan 28 | Data Wrangling III | 🌐 | 🎥 |
| Jan 30 | Data Viz I: ggplot2 basics | 🌐 | 🎥 | |
| 5 | Feb 04 | Data Viz II: Multiple plots | 🌐 | 🎥 |
| Feb 06 | Data Viz III: Advanced plots, maps | 🌐 | 🎥 | |
| 6 | Feb 11 | Iteration: Loops & Mapping | 🌐 | 🎥 |
| Feb 13 | Weather Data: Retrieving & Processing | 🌐 | ||
| Feb 13 | Models I: introduction to models | 🌐 | 🎥 | |
| Winter Break begins after the end of class | ||||
| 7 | Feb 25 | Models II: Linear Models | 🌐 | 🎥 |
| Feb 27 | Models III: Mixed Linear Models | 🌐 | 🎥 | |
| 8 | Mar 04 | Models IV: Repeated Measures | 🌐 | 🎥 |
| Mar 06 | Models V: Non-linear Regression | 🌐 | 🎥 | |
| 9 | Mar 11 | Models: Review I | 🌐 | 🎥 |
| Mar 13 | Models VI: PCA | 🌐 | 🎥 | |
| 10 | Mar 18 | Models VII: Bayesian Stats I | 🌐 | 🎥 |
| Mar 20 | Models VIII: Bayesian Stats II | 🌐 | 🎥 | |
| 11 | Mar 25 | Models IX: Cross-validation | 🌐 | 🎥 |
| Mar 25 | Models X: Regression Trees | 🌐 | 🎥 | |
| Mar 27 | General Review class | 🌐 | 🎥 | |
| 12 | Apr 01 | Semester Projects Presentations I | 🌐 | |
| Apr 03 | Semester Projects Presentations II | 🌐 | ||
| 13 | Apr 10 | Final Exam Due (11.59 pm) | 🌐 |