Quantitative Methods in Urban Design and Planning
URBAN 520, Department of Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington, Autumn 2026
Tuesday & Thursday, 1:30 - 4:20 pm, Gould Hall 110, the 2nd lab room: Gould Hall 007
Instructor: Haoyu Yue, [email protected]. Office Hours: Monday 9:20-10:20 AM at Gould Hall 012C; or book online
Teaching Assistant: Sun Ho Hwang, [email protected]. Office Hours: Friday 10:00-11:00 AM at Gould Hall 432
Lab Sessions
We will provide two concurrent sessions for most labs, one using R (section A, coding-based) and another one using IBM SPSS and Excel (section B, interface-based). The intention is to utilize different tools to work on the same datasets and problems. You can also attend some sessions in R while others in SPSS.
R session will be at Gould 110; SPSS session will be at Gould Hall 007.
| Labs | Materials |
|---|---|
| 01 - Software Setup | Page / Rmd |
| 02 - Basics of R and RStudio | Page / Rmd |
| 03 - Dataframe and Accessing Census Data | Page / Rmd |
| 04 - Visualization in Tableau | Page / Data & Packaged Tableau |
| 05A - Modifying Dataframe in R 05B - Getting Started with SPSS | Page / Rmd Files |
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