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• Aug 20. As I explained in class, I am out of town this weekend, visiting my family in Nebraska (and hopefully viewing the total Eclipse tomorrow). I will be returning on Wednesday, Aug 23, and posting final course grades on CampusConnect on Thursday. Thanks for your patience.
   
• Aug 15. The drop box is ready for your Final Project submissions. Submit a zip file with these documents:
  
  1. Nontechnical Summary
  2. Technical Report
  3. Power Point Slides
  4. SAS or R Scripts
  5. Dataset or Link to Dataset
  Submit your Group Member Evaluation Form separately on D2L to keep it anonymous.
   
• Aug 15. The schedule of Final Project presentations for tomorrow, Aug 16, is posted.
   
• Aug 14. Please post your project title and members of your project group by tonight if you have not done so already. Post this information on the Project Title and Members discussion topic.
   
• Aug 14. The Final Exam scores are posted on D2L. The Final Exam hardcopies will be returned to the live-section on Wednesday, Aug 16.
   
• Aug 14. The Project 2 submissions with incorrect late penalties should be fixed today. I won't respond to all your emails individually. If your Project 2 still looks incorrect after tomorrow, email me back about it.
   
• Aug 12. Many of you sent me email about late penalties for Project 2. Unfortunately, the grader was using Thursday, Aug 4 as the due date for Project 2, not the later date of Aug 6 that was posted on the Announcements Page. I have asked the grader to remove the late penalty for projects submitted by Monday morning, Aug 7. Thanks for your patience.
   
• Aug 9. Please submit your instructor evaluation form on MyCDM if you have not done do already. The latest that you can submit your instructor evaluation is Aug 15.
   
• Aug 8. The in-class final exam will be held tomorrow: Wednesday, Aug 9.
   
• Aug 8. One of the requirements for each project is to submit a zip file; individual submissions for each file are more difficult to grade.
   
• Aug 8. The dropboxes for Projects 4, 5, and 6 are posted on D2L.
   
• Aug 8. Project 4 will not be counted late if it is submitted by Thursday, Aug 17.
   
• Aug 8. Here are the R and SAS scripts for Project 3 that read the salary survey data, set up the dummy variables for educ, and create a new data frame with the original variables and dummy variables included.
   
• Aug 8. The Project Title and Members discussion topic is posted. Please enter the title of your final project and the names of the members of your project group. Post this by Monday Aug 14, at the latest.
   
• Aug 8. Our class will meet on Monday, Aug 14, when we will discuss some final details about logistic regression, ANOVA, and its relation to regression modeling. We will discuss two case studies from the textbook.
   
• Aug 7. The due date for Project 3 is extended until Sunday night, Aug 13. However, be familar with the Problems on Project 3 for the final exam. If Project 3 is submitted more than one week later than August 8, it will be counted more than 1 week late.
   
• Aug 7. See the CPUReg2 Example to see how to standardize regression coefficients.
   
• Jul 31. Project 2 is due on August 4; it will not be counted late if submitted by Sunday, August 6. However, it will be counted more than one week late if submitted more than one week after August 4.
   
• Jul 31. Project 3 is due on August 8.
   
• Jul 28. You can resubmit projects to D2L if you wish; D2L keeps all of the projects. Projects resubmitted after the due date may be counted late.
   
• Jul 28. One way of choosing the best regression model for Project 2 is to pick the model with the largest adjusted R² value. This combines the criteria of accuracy and parsimony. We will look at the CPU3 Example, which does this, next week.
   
• Jul 27. The Project 1 Description has been updated to refer to the paper colors white and yellow in the data files, rather than the paper colors blue and white, which were used last summer.
   
• Jul 27. Before submitting Project 1, be sure to read the Project Submission Guidelines. Note that for your answers, either a Word file or a PDF file are accepted.
   
• Jul 26. Reminder: Project 1 is due on July 31, at 11:59pm.
   
• Jul 24. CSC 324 students in the online section: try signing up for the final exam again if you were previously unable to sign up for it.
   
• Jul 19. If you are in the online-section or if you will not be able to attend one of the in-class meetings on Monday, Jul 17, or Wednesday, Jul 19, please submit a document and comment to the Attendence Verification discussion topic stating that you wish to remain in the class. If you attended at least one of the in-class meetings on Monday or Wednesday this week, and were checked off on the attendence sheet, you need do nothing further.
   
• Jul 19. The due dates for the class projects have been revised. They are shown on the Projects Page.
   
• Jul 18. The datafiles paper1.txt, paper2.txt, paper1-cleaned.txt, and paper2-cleaned.txt are posted, based on the micrometer measurements from the in-class section yesterday. They will be used as input datasets for Project 1.
   
• Jul 18. Final Exam signup for online students is posted.
   
• Jul 18. The class content is the same for the online sections as it is for the in-class sections. The class content is also the same for the CSC 423 sections as it is for the CSC 324 sections. The only differences between the CSC 423 and CSC 324 sections are:
  
  1. Students in the CSC 324 section are not required to submit Project 4.
  2. Students in the CSC 324 in-class section are not required to give a class presentation of their final projects.
  3. The final exam for the may be scaled differently CSC 423 and CSC 324 sections.
  
  
• Jul 18. A zip file of the examples discussed yesterday in class are posted at the top of the Examples Page.
   
• Jul 18. For the second half of the class tomorrow (July 17), starting at 7:30pm, we meet in the computer lab CDM 801. For the first half tomorrow, we will meet in our normal classroom CDM 226.
   
• Jul 6. The first meeting of our CSC 423/324 class will be on Monday, July 18, from 5:45am to 9:00pm, in Room 226 in the CDM Building of the Loop Campus, 243 S. Wabash.
   
• Jul 6. Here is the email that I sent on July 7 to our class.
   
• Jul 6. Office hours will be on Mondays and Wednesdays, from 3:30pm to 5:00pm.
   
• Jul 6. You have the choice of using either SAS or R for CSC 423. R is a quicker download and runs on either Windows or Mac. If you wish to use SAS, continue to the next announcment.
   
• Jul 6. Directions for downloading and installing SAS are available on webdrive.depaul.edu. Enter your Campus Connect username and password to gain access. Go to
   
  
  W: >> software >> Students >> Windows >>
         SAS >> Students - Install SAS - W Drive.pdf
  
  Here is a direct link to the SAS installation directions:
   
  
  Students - Install SAS 209.4.pdf
  
  
• Jul 6. If you already have SAS installed, but only need an updated license key, you can find also find it on the Web Drive:
   
  
  W: >> software >> Students >> Windows >>
         SAS >> Students - Renew SAS.pdf
  
  The license key files with update directions are available for the 9.2, 9.3, and 9.4 versions.
  Here is a direct link to the SAS license renewal directions:
   
  
  Students - Renew SAS.pdf
  
  
• Jul 6. Here is a link to the free SAS University Edition, which students have successfully used in CSC data analysis courses. Here is also a paper, which gives more details about the SAS University Edition, including installation directions.
   
• Jul 6. R is available as a free download. Installation directions are included in this document: Introduction to R.
   
• Jul 6. Office hours will be held from 4:45pm to 5:30pm on Mondays and Wednesdays.
   
• Jul 6. For this course, we will be using the D2L software for submitting projects (http://d2l.depaul.edu) and for posting grades.  Course documents will not be posted on D2L, but on this course website instead.
   
• Jul 6. Set the Microsoft Explorer on your Windows PC to show file extensions.
   
  1. Invoke the MS File Explorer by selecting Start, All Programs, Accessories, and Windows Explorer.
      
  2. From the MS File Explorer, select Tools, Folder Options.... Select the View tab and uncheck the box for "Hide extensions for known file extensions."