###Course I: Statistical Thinking for Data Science and Analytics

Excel sheet for the Buffon's needle learning activity.

The folder R Learning activities contains some R learning activities we created for week 3 of our course I "Statistical Thinking for Data Science and Analytics" for the ColumbiaX series on Data Science and Analytics on edX.

• Download R (and choose the version according to your computer’s platform) from https://cran.rstudio.com/.
• Open (double click) the downloaded package to start standard installation.
• Install R studio from https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/.
• Start RStudio.
• In the lower left “Console” window, type install.packages(“knitr”)
• You will be asked to select a respiratory. Please just choose one that is close to you or just choose “https://cran.rstudio.com/.”

• Learning activity 1: Introduction to R
• Learning activity 2: Association 1: analysis of variance
• Learning activity 3: Association 2: simple linear regression

These learning activities are given during week 3 of our edX course. All these RMarkdown files can be run after installing R, Rstudio, and the knitr package. We use data sets that come with standard R installation. These RMarkdown (rmd) files are intended to be downloaded locally and run on your personal computer. Download these files to your computer and save them in a designated folder (such as one created for this course). To explore the R codes, in Rstudio, use the file menu to open the saved RMarkdown file and click on "knit html".

• Learning activity 4: visualize the geographical distribution of participants of our edX course. This exercise is contributed by our course assistant Bob Minnich.

The folder R Learning activities contains another R learning activity we created for week 5 of our course I "Statistical Thinking for Data Science and Analytics" for the ColumbiaX series on Data Science and Analytics on edX.

• Learning activity BDA: Bayesian Data Analysis with Stan.