Date	Topic	Materials	Readings	Assignments
09/30	Introduction	Slides (4 pages)
10/07	Analysis design and validity	Slides (4 pages)	The concept of external validity Views on Internal and External Validity in Empirical Software Engineering Reading questions	In-class 1 (due 10/13)
10/14	Data wrangling	Slides (4 pages) Data wrangling demo	Science as Amateur Software Development Reading questions	In-class 2 (due 10/20)
10/21	Statistical modeling	Slides (4 pages) Simulation demo	A Practical Guide for Using Statistical Tests to Assess Randomized Algorithms in SE Reading questions	In-class 3 (due 10/27)
10/28	Statistical significance and power	Slides (4 pages) Significance demo		In-class 4 (due 11/03)
11/04	Advanced statistical modeling	Slides (4 pages) Modeling demo		HW 1 (due 11/17)
11/11	No class (holiday)
11/18	Data visualization/reporting	Slides (4 pages)	Introduction to ggplot2 The ggplot2 book Good and bad practices in data viz Quarto tutorial	HW 2 (due 12/04)
11/25	Big data	Slides (4 pages) Spark demo	Rcpp tutorial Sparklyr tutorial and reference Spark reference	In-class 5 (due 12/08)
12/02	Big data	Slides (4 pages)