Stat 370 Survey Results

I listed 20 topics we might consider covering during the rest of the semester. There was an additional "other" category. Students were asked to rank their preferences, leaving blank those they did not want covered at all.

Here are the results:

Extra Time on Compelling graphics: 2, 3, 3, 5, 6, 7, 13 + Four Blanks.

Extra Time on Shiny Applications: 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 8 + Four Blanks.

More work on Spatial Data: 2, 3, 6, 8, 14 + Six Blanks.

Tools for Collaboration on Github: 6, 8, 18, 19 + Seven Blanks.

Text Mining: Twitter: 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 10, 16 + Four Blanks.

Regular Expressions: 5, 8, 15, 19 + Seven Blanks.

Sentiment Analysis: 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 17 + Four Blanks.

Mining the Social Web beyond accessing simple tweets: 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 19 + Four Blanks.

Simulation and Markov Chains: 1, 7, 10, 11, 15 + Six Blanks.

Assignments that cover more of R's basics: 1, 1, 2, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 10 + Two Blanks.

Web scraping with R: 1, 2, 7, 8 + Seven Blanks.

Dealing with data in JSON and/or XML format: 8, 13, 17 + Eight Blanks.