1. STT592: Intro. to Statistical Learning
Course Miscellany
Chapter 00

2. STT592: Intro. to Statistical Learning
To do list
1. A quiz on R next Wednesday (08/28/2019).
Codeacademy Learn R: 

3. STT592: Intro. to Statistical Learning
To do list
2. Prepare a self-introduction PPT (Present on Friday, 08/23/2019):
About 3-5 slides for each student.
Tell your peers who you are, so you will find your teammate who have the similar interest with you.
Purpose: To develop oral communication and presentation skills.
3. Create Google drive accounts & folders.

4. STT592: Intro. to Statistical Learning
Miscellany: Q & A
Q1: How to name your PPTs, HWs, or project reports?
A1: Use LastName_Project-title.
Eg: ChenC_HW1.docx.
Eg: Chen_Wang_Presentation1.pptx.
Note: If both students share same last name, then add first name also.

5. STT592: Intro. to Statistical Learning
Miscellany: Q & A
Q2: Where to submit your PPTs, HWs, or project reports?
A2: Use Google Drive class share-folder.
For Computational projects, ALL computational codes need to be saved into separated files, which will be submitted with project reports and your DATA simultaneously into the folders. Please create your own sub-folder.

6. STT592: Intro. to Statistical Learning
Miscellany: Q & A
Q3: Which software should I use for projects?
A5: Any software will work.
R will be the focus for this class, but you can use Python, Excel, Matlab, SAS, or SPSS…, if you can make it work yourself.
Q6: Can I submit my HWs/Projects through s?
A6: Any HW files submitted through s will NOT be accepted or graded.

7. STT592: Intro. to Statistical Learning
Miscellany: Q & A
Basic Ideas...:
HW/Project assignments will be sent out through s.
Some students find it easier to bring your own laptop to daily classes. But it is not required.

8. STT592: Intro. to Statistical Learning
Scientific writing
Scientific writing template and assigned for reading.
Let’s take a close look at the tables and figures.
We will use APA6 style for project reports. You can use Latex or Word.
[let’s talk about it]

9. STT592: Intro. to Statistical Learning
Scientific writing

10. STT592: Intro. to Statistical Learning
Scientific writing
Latex Template from Overleaf is included here:
You can also find one Word file template from Google drive folder:

11. Weekly/Final Group Project
STT592: Intro. to Statistical Learning
Weekly/Final Group Project
Follow the instruction from Student project Information to find your teammates and project dataset:

12. STT592: Intro. to Statistical Learning
HPC accounts
Due to our BIG DATA property potentially, it is impossible to use local laptop/desktop in some cases. We will instead use High Performance Computing (HPC).
Please create your account through:
Please me your account by Friday 9/6/2019. So I can add you into our HPC allocation, which may take days.
We will use it for HPC training over September Once you are added into our allocation, please make sure you can log into your account. Without such log-in access, you will slow down the progress of the whole team, which happened to our group over summers or falls.