STARS@SLU 2025 Cohort Program Materials

Welcome STARS@SLU!

Here you can find and download materials shared for our program. Check regularly for updates.

Schedule

All program events will take place in Room 230 of the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering (ISE) Building on SLU’s North Campus. For visitors, the closest parking options are the Laclede Garage and the Olive-Compton Garage. Additional information, including maps and directions, can be found here: SLU Maps and Directions

• Schedule (PDF)
• Project timeline

Workshop Materials

dplyr murder mystery

Reference materials

• R cheatsheets: dplyr, tidyr, (data manipulation) ggplot2 (visualization)
• Probability, Statistics, and Data: A Fresh Approach Using R

Data Science Project Materials

Good sources of data

• General: Data Is Plural, Kaggle, Tidy Tuesday, r/dataisbeautiful
• Data.gov, Medicare provider data
• City of St. Louis Open Data, St. Louis County Open Data, Missouri DESE (School) Data
• R packages: US Census data (tidycensus)

Project proposals:

• proposal-ARK.pdf
• proposal-BSZ.pdf
• proposal-JMP.pdf
• proposal-KLM.pdf

Training Materials

Data for practice

• cereal.csv (Source: Kaggle, 80 Cereals)
• excess-defense-articles.csv (Source: Defense Security Cooperation Agency)
  Also, country_geography.csv (from Wikipedia)
• flint.csv (Source: Flint Water Study)
• parrots.csv (Source: Call of the Wild Web, Hirskyj-Douglas, Cunha, and Kleinberger 2024)
• chipotle-bowls.csv: ChipotleGuy27's history of Chipotle orders, 2021-2023.

Data for mini-project

• soep2019.csv . Source: German Socio-Economic Panel (2019 data on employed age 18-65)
• compas2014.csv . Source: ProPublica
• personalities.csv . Source: Which Character? Personality Quiz.
• swift.csv. Crowdsourced data on ticket sales for the 2022 Taylor Swift Eras tour. (Source: Slate)
• medical_chat.csv (Source: Ayers et al. 2023)
• wildlife_captions.csv (Source: Freund et al., Effects of captions on viewers' perceptions of images depicting human-primate interaction, Conservation Biology 2023)
• celebrity_jeopardy_performances.csv (Source: J-Archive)
• Baseball data from the Lahman R package.
• Various data in the medicaldata R package.

Morning Session Materials

• Welcome/Orientation (PDF)
• College Life (PDF)
• Summer Opportunities (PDF)
• Career in STEM (PDF)

Poster Template

• Poster Template (pptx)
• Poster Design Tips (PDF)

Contact

If you have questions, email: ozlem.ugurlu@slu.edu

Support for STARS@SLU is provided by the Mathematical Association of America and the Tensor Foundation.