Slack

Slack channel specifically for students: https://stat545classroom2024.slack.com/

• Invite link is on Canvas.
• Be sure to be part of the #announcements channel to receive official course announcements!
• Please do not send private questions to individual TA’s – use the #general channel instead.
• Slack communication guidelines here: https://stat545.stat.ubc.ca/slack_communication/

Topics

Worksheets

Options for working on these worksheets:

• Edit them with instances of jupyterlab or jupyter notebook that are installed on your own computer. (BEST)
• Edit them with UBC Syzygy (pronounced sizz-ij-ee): https://ubc.syzygy.ca/
• Edit them with Google Colab: https://research.google.com/colaboratory/ (LEAST PREFERABLE)

Submit the worksheets by uploading your .ipynb file to the corresponding canvas assignment slot.

To get full marks for each formative worksheet, you must successfully answer at least 50% of all autograded questions.

Projects

You will be working on various projects on GitHub repositories within a GitHub Organization setup for this course. Some general things you should know:

How to followup with a project submission

You’ll be given feedback as an Issue in your project repository, sometimes before your grade is posted.

• Make sure you’re Watching your repository, so that you will be notified by email whenever a new Issue or comment is posted – you can find this option in the upper-right hand corner of your repository page.
• You can use the Issue thread to have a conversation about your assignment results.
• If you would like to dispute your grade, this Issue thread is the place to do it, but please do so only within 1 week after the grade has been posted.