Learning objectives

• Get organized for the course
• Examine some data

Before class

• Remember to bring your laptop to class

In class

• Welcome, introductions, and course description
• Smoking data
• Birthday data
• Login to Piazza online forum and respond to the post “Introduce yourself!”
• Try out RStudio
• Verify that you can get on the homework server, find and work Birthday problem

On you own 

• Watch this one-hour documentary: The Joy of Stats with Hans Rossling

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