Week 8 - Modelling data

Linear models for predicting numerical data from single and multiple variables 📈

Last updated on 12 Nov 2020

Tasks

Watch the videos
Complete the assignments
Complete the readings

Videos

You have two options for watching the course videos, on YouTube or on MediaHopper. You can also find a playlists for all course videos on YouTube here and on MediaHopper here.

No.	Title	Length
01	Keeping up with IDS: Week 8	9:54
🎤	Writing Advice from Matt Stone & Trey Parker	2:14
2	The language of models	27:16
3	Fitting and interpreting models	29:04
4	Modelling nonlinear relationships	20:44
5	Models with multiple predictors	20:52
6	More models with multiple predictors	23:56

Assignments

Assignment	Title	Due
Due this week
Lab 05	Conveying the right message through visualisation	Tue, 10 Nov, 16:00 UK
HW 03	Money in politics	Thur, 12 Nov, 16:00 UK
OQ 07	Simple linear regression	Sun, 15 Nov, 23:59 UK
Due next week
Lab 06	Course evaluations	Tue, 17 Nov, 16:00 UK

Readings


📖	IMS: Chp 3 - Introduction to linear models	Required
📖	IMS: Sec 4.1 - Regression with multiple predictors	Required

Code-along

You can find starter code for this session on RStudio Cloud, in the project titled Code Along 08 - Lending club loans.


Recording
Session artifacts	`.Rmd` `.md`

Interactive R tutorials

The following are interactive R tutorials, designed to give you more practice with R. These are optional, but they will show up in your next homework assignment, so you should gain familiarity with it. If you’re struggling with any of the topics covered this week, we strongly recommend you work through the interactive tutorials.


Bike Rentals in D.C.	Related to HW 04