PSCI 2075: Week 1 - Introduction to the course and setting up R

Damon C. Roberts

Introductions

  • Who am I?
  • Who are you?

Who am I?

Damon with Max

  • PhD candidate in the political science department at CU Boulder
  • Recieved my Masters here at CU
  • Recieved my Bachelor of Science from Boise State University
  • Studies:
    • For politics: how politically-relevant visual information shapes political attitudes and behaviors
    • Statistics: the causes of survey non-response, consequences of missing data on our models, and open science practices
  • Spends free time running, building software, looking at sports data (mainly basketball and baseball), and watching the Nuggets

Who are you?

Groups for the term project

  • Need to be in groups of 3 people
  • Can form the group yourselves

Recitation handout

  • I have created and will be maintaining a recitation handout or reference guide for you to take a look at as we progress through the course.

  • You can access it by:

  • sp23.psci2075.classes.damoncroberts.com

  • OR

    • go to: damoncroberts.com then select teaching then psci-2075