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Intro to Data Science Assignments

Week 1: None. Enjoy the start of your semester.
Week 2: First problems in R (DO NOT HAVE TO DO)
Week 3: Data Frames and Libraries
Week 4: Ggplot2
Week 5: Ggplot, dplyr, and troubleshooting; hw_gapminder.csv
Week 6: Asking questions of a birthweight data set, and the California birthweight data
Week 7 & 8: Marmosets, tidyr, and functions, and the dataset for the week
Week 9: Questions about your Final Project
Week 12: Two-Sample Lizards, data
Final Assignment: Easing You Into Your Project

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