These are the materials used for internal R training at the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.
The bootcamp is intended to help non-R users in education policy/research get up to speed on how to use R to do their work, share their results, and collaborate on projects with each other across district and state lines. The topics covered include:
- Setting Up R
- Introduction to R
- Getting Data In
- Sorting and Reshaping Data
- Cleaning Education Data
- Regression and Basic Analytics in R
- Visualizing Data
- Exporting Your Work
- Advanced Topics
- A Statistics Refresher (beta)
- Programming Principles (for beginning R useRs)
Future enhancements include a more in-depth data visualization tutorial, how to build presentations and reproducible research, and speaker notes!