Activities – UMD DAta Science Biology

Activity #	Activity	Topic
1	Activity 1 — Measuring Leaves and Entering Data	Field observations, hypotheses, and organizing data
2	Activity — Introduction to R and Positron	From the console to your first plot with the leaf data
3	Activity 03 - GGPlot I	Grouped summaries, facets, and the pipe into ggplot
4	Activity 04 - GGPlot II	More geoms, zooming safely, and picking a theme
5	Activity 05 - Wrangling data	filter, select, mutate, arrange — and chaining them into a pipeline
6	Activity 06 - Summary statistics	Mean, median, spread, and describing groups the tidy way
7	Activity 07 — Build Your First Quarto Report	Turn your leaf analysis into a professional Word document
9	Activity 09 — T-Tests I: Setting Up the Test	Hypotheses, the t-statistic, and checking assumptions before we test
10	Activity 10 — T-Tests II: Running, Reporting & Extension	Running Welch’s t-test, reading the output, and writing it up
11	Worksheet 11 — Linear Regression	Building a calibration curve to predict leaf area from paper tracing mass
12	Worksheet 06 — Real Climate Data in R	Downloading, summarizing, and modeling Duluth weather station data
14	Worksheet 15 — Find Your Own Data	Browse real data sources, load a candidate in R, and draft your Milestone 1
15	Worksheet — One-Way ANOVA I: Setting Up the Test (with Factors)	Exploring the penguins, ordering groups with factors, fitting the model, and checking assumptions
16	Worksheet — One-Way ANOVA II: Running, Reporting & Extension	Reading the F table, finding which species differ, and writing it up
17	Worksheet 15 — Wide, Long, and Wild: Pivoting Real Data	Reshaping Lake Superior ice cover with pivot_longer() and pivot_wider()
19	Worksheet — Final Project Pitch Day	A 3-minute pitch of your question, data, and plan — plus structured peer feedback
21	Worksheet — Joins: Combining Two Fisher Monitoring Tables	Keys, mutating joins, and filtering joins on a fisher reintroduction dataset
23	Worksheet — Mapping Bigfoot Sightings	Turn latitude/longitude into maps with sf and geom_sf, then build a per-state choropleth
29	Worksheet — Final Poster Session	Present your finished analysis as a poster and run a structured peer review