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 2011
final11.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
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 -- due Thursday, 25 August 2011
Class Assignment #2 -- due Tuesday, 06 September 2011
Class Assignment #3 -- due Thursday, 08 September 2011
Class Assignment #4 -- due Thursday, 22 September 2011
Class Assignment #5 -- due Tuesday, 04 October 2011
Class Assignment #6 -- due Thursday, 27 October 2011 -- use file 'w4statacc4'
Class Assignment #7 -- due Thursday, 10 November 2011

First Assignment -- due Thursday, 01 September 2011 csiro  mfg
Second Assignment -- due Tuesday, 27 September 2011 cdiac
Third Assignment -- due Thursday, 27 October 2011
Fourth Assignment -- due Thursday, 24 November 2011 mwwords.dat

Class files
August 2011
September 2011
October 2011
November 2011

Teaching Assistant: Brad Turnbull
Office Hours (in SAS Hall Room 1101)
Monday 9:00-10:00
Wednesday 1:00-2:00