Undergraduate Programs
BCS 207: Lecture Schedule
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Week
Date
Monday
Date
Wednesday
Notes and to do
1
01/16
R: How to choose a good research question | pdf
Brainstorming
Brainstorming
Contact your mentor and pick a weekly meeting time
2
01/21
MLK Day (no class)
01/23
Present 3 research ideas
Converge on a project with your mentor
3
01/28
C: General plans for this semester, Poster presentations, Summer Internships
R: Replication crisis
R: Replication crisis
01/30
2 groups present project hypothesis with background research
4
02/04
W: Writing a research abstract
02/06
2 groups present project hypothesis with background research
2/4 First writing assignment available after class
5
02/11
Present project & schedule
02/13
C: Coursera (what's a pvalue?)
2/14 noon: First writing assignment due: Abstract
by 2/17 midnight: comments back
by 2/17 midnight: comments back
6
02/18
Progress update 3
02/20
C: Conference Abstract Submission
R: Peer Review | pdf
R: Peer Review | pdf
2/22 6pm: 2nd assignment due: joint abstract
2/22 midnight: 3rd Review assignment given
2/22 midnight: 3rd Review assignment given
7
02/25
R: Abstract peer review session
02/27
R: Bootstrapped confidence intervals (Matlab)
2nd written assignment given (Methods)
2nd written assignment given (Methods)
Chigusa out of town 2/25+7
2/27 9am: 3rd assignment: peer review due
3/1: Research Expo abstract due
2/27 9am: 3rd assignment: peer review due
3/1: Research Expo abstract due
8
03/04
Progress update 4
03/06
C+F: Intro into R + statistics I
Ralf out of town 3/4+6
9
03/11
Spring Break (no class)
03/13
Spring Break (no class)
10
03/18
Progress update 5
03/20
F: Statistics in R II
3/22 8pm: 4th assignment due: Methods section
Ralf out of town 3/18
Ralf out of town 3/18
11
03/25
Progress update 6: preliminary analyses and graphs
03/27
F: Statistics in R III
12
04/01
Progress update 7: preliminary analyses and graphs 2
04/03
R+C: How to make a poster
4/5 11:59pm: 5th assignment due: Analysis (Preliminary/Plan), (Prediction) Figures
13
04/08
Poster draft presentation
04/10
R+C: How to present a poster
14
04/15
Poster presentation 1+2
04/17
Poster presentation 3+4
4/17 9am: Final poster due for printing
Research Expo (4/19, Fri)
Research Expo (4/19, Fri)
15
04/22
Discussion of comments received at Expo
04/24
Preliminary Final presentation
16
04/29
Final Project Presentation
Submit all stimuli, code, data, slides
Submit all stimuli, code, data, slides
05/01
Final Project Presentation
Submit all stimuli, code, data, slides
Submit all stimuli, code, data, slides
5/10 6pm: Final research paper (group submission)
Readings & Assignments
- 1/16 (Wed) How to choose a good scientific problem
- Pubmed article link
- 2/13 (Wed) What's a p-value?
- Improving your statistical inferences online course
- 3/6: C+F: Intro into R + statistics
- James et al Chapter 1, p. 15-24, 29-36, plus lab 42-50, plus exercise 8. that should take up to 3h of work time. folks who are already more advanced might want to read all of chapter 1. there are also good conceptual exercises at the end of the chapter.