SOCIOL 333: Quantitative Analysis of Sociological Data

Instructor: Suzanne Schenewerk

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

Week	Date	Topic	Read	Bring	Due	Exercise
1	Wed, May 15	Welcome/Course info				Getting to know you survey
	Thu, May 16	Data and variables	IMS ch 1			Variable types
	Fri, May 17	(Friday workday)
2	Mon, May 20	Intro to the computing workflow				Computing setup
	Tue, May 21	Project and research questions				Clone repo
	Wed, May 22	Studies and samples	IMS ch 2			Studies and samples
	Thu, May 23	Workshopping project proposals		Proposal draft
	Fri, May 24	(Friday workday)
3	Mon, May 27	No class (Memorial Day)
	Tue, May 28	Summary statistics			Project proposal	Summary statistics
	Wed, May 29	Filtering data frames	IMS ch 4			Filtering
	Thu, May 30	Creating new variables	IMS ch 5			Creating variables
	Fri, May 31	(Friday workday)
4	Mon, Jun 3	Pipes
	Tue, Jun 4	Plotting one variable				Plotting one variable
	Wed, Jun 5	Plotting relationships between variables	IMS ch 6
	Thu, Jun 6	Hypothesis testing pt. 1	IMS ch 11 and ch 13		Project descriptive statistics	Null and alternative hypotheses
	Fri, Jun 7	(Friday workday)
5	Mon, Jun 10	Hypothesis testing pt. 2				Z-scores
	Tue, Jun 11	Hypothesis testing pt. 3				Hypothesis testing
	Wed, Jun 12	Hypothesis testing pt. 4				Hypothesis testing  2
	Thu, Jun 13	Interpreting results		Results draft		Interpreting results
	Fri, Jun 14	(Friday workday)
7	Mon, Jun 17	Limitations and future research
	Tue, Jun 18	Best practices	Science Isn’t Broken		Project results
	Wed, Jun 19	No class (Juneteenth)
	Thu, Jun 20	Final project presentations		Paper draft	Project presentations
	Fri, Jun 21	(Friday workday)
8	Mon, Jun 24	No class, final papers due			Final paper