1 Introduction

The following is a data analytics curriculum specifically designed for the advanced track of Shaping the Future of the Bay Area, the flagship course of the Stanford Future Bay Initiative. Stanford students who enroll in the course will work through this material alongside lectures and discussions, and are expected to complete assignments connected to each chapter for a grade. Students can then continue on to participate in practicum projects that make use of these technical skills.

This curriculum is also designed to be useful to a wider audience (though many datasets and concepts will be most applicable if you are working in the U.S.). If you don’t have prior experience in R, start with the intro curriculum. If you have any questions or comments, reach out to lead instructor Derek Ouyang at .

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