ST 590G: Computation for Data Analysis
John Monahan (email: monahan@stat.ncsu.edu)

Tuesday & Thursdays 8:30 - 9:45 am
SICL in SAS Hall, Room 1107

Prerequisities: ST 445 or SAS skills at Base SAS certification level
ST 430 (or concurrent)
To assess your SAS skill level, here's the ST445 Final Exam from Spring 2012
final12.txt

Dr. Monahan's Walk-In Hours

classdrive

Syllabus (txt)
Bizarro cartoon
Ronald Cody tutorial on regular expressions
Norwegian Snow files
sea snake files
Lahman's baseball database files
Some temperature data from CDIAC
US Historical Climate Network files
Old (2009) www4.stat Weblogs
FIBA Men's Championship 2010 (fiba)

Tentative list of topics (subject to change)
1) Basic simulation tools in SAS
2) Text/data parsing and analysis
3) Basics of macros and ODS
4) Automated data extraction
5) Further simulation tools

Class Assignment #1 -- Thursday, 22 August 2012
Class Assignment #2 -- Thursday, 06 September 2012
Class Assignment #3 -- Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Class Assignment #4 -- Thursday, 20 September 2012
Class Assignment #5 -- Tuesday, 02 October 2012
Class Assignment #6 -- Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Class Assignment #7 -- Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Class Assignment #8 -- Thursday, 08 November 2012

First Assignment -- due Thursday, 30 August 2012  cdiac  mfg
Second Assignment -- due Tuesday, 25 September 2012 
Third Assignment -- due Thursday, 25 October 2012 
Fourth Assignment -- due Tuesday, 27 November 2012 

Class files
August 2012
September 2012
October 2012
November 2012

Teaching Assistant: Ailin Fan
Office Hours (in SAS Hall Room 1101)
Wednesday 9:00-10:00
Thursday 12:00-1:00