A repository to house materials for a 2 day course introducing participants to data science using R.
The goal of this 2 day workshop is to teach new-to-programming data professionals to import data, clean up and summarize a data set, and make some static data visualizations using the program R. This is an introductory course to programming, specifically programming with R. R is a popular statistical computing language, commonly used in many scientific disciplines for statistical analysis, generating production-quality graphics, and automating data workflow tasks. The workshop content will follow best practices for using R for data analysis, giving attendees a foundation in the fundamentals of R and scientific computing.
- Anyone who works with data or who is interested in learning efficient ways to make meaning from data
- Anyone comfortable troubleshooting issues on their computer
- Anyone keen to learn a programming language
| Activity | Start Time | End time |
|---|---|---|
| Module #1 | 9:00 | 10:30 |
| Break | 10:30 | 10:45 |
| Module #2 | 10:45 | 12:00 |
| Lunch | 12:00 | 1:00 |
| Module #3 | 1:00 | 2:30 |
| Break | 2:30 | 2:45 |
| Module #4 | 2:45 | 4:30 |
Course Notes: https://bcgov.github.io/ds-intro-to-r-2-day/
- Introduction to Course (30 min) (Bonnie)
- Demo (10 min) (Bonnie)
- Introduction to R & RStudio (50 minutes) (Bonnie)
- BREAK ☕
- Seeking Help in R (15 minutes) (Julie)
- Project Management with RStudio (60 minutes) (Julie)
- Lunch
- Data Structures (75 minutes) (Bonnie)
- Extra Practice + Questions (15 minutes)
- BREAK ☕
- Data Manipulation with
dplyr(90 minutes) (Julie) - Day 1 Wrap-up + Questions (15 minutes)
- Review + Questions (30 minutes)
- Making Publication Quality Plots with
ggplot2Pt. 1 (60 minutes) (Bonnie) - BREAK ☕
- Making Publication Quality Plots with
ggplot2Pt. 2 (60 minutes) (Bonnie) - Extra Practice + Questions (15 minutes)
- Lunch
- Data Manipulation with
tidyr(60 minutes) (Julie) - Extra Practice + Questions (15 minutes)
- BREAK ☕
- Joins with
dplyr(45 minutes) (Julie) - Mini-Analysis Project: (45 minutes)
- Day 2 Wrap-up + Questions (15 minutes)
Most of the above lesson material is sourced or an adaptation of the Software Carpentry Foundation (now The Carpenties) R for Reproducible Scientific Analysis lesson material: Thomas Wright and Naupaka Zimmerman (eds): Software Carpentry: R for Reproducible Scientific Analysis. Version 2016.06, June 2016, https://github.com/swcarpentry/r-novice-gapminder, 10.5281/zenodo.57520.
The R Markdown sections also draw material from Nicholas Tierney's excellent R Markdown for Scientists course which is available here: https://rmd4sci.njtierney.com/
- Instructors: Bonnie Robert, Julie Hawkins, Stephanie Yurchuk
- Suggested pre-reading: Good Enough Practices for Scientific Computing
- Course material: https://bcgov.github.io/ds-intro-to-r-2-day/
- What we actually did on the day:
- Instructors: Andy Teucher, Sam Albers & Bonnie Robert
- Suggested pre-reading: Good Enough Practices for Scientific Computing
- Course material: https://bcgov.github.io/ds-intro-to-r-2-day/
- What we actually did on the day: https://github.com/bcgov/ds-intro-to-r-2-day/tree/master/what_we_actually_did/online-Feb-2022
- Instructors: Sam Albers, Stephanie Hazlitt, Genevieve Perkins & Andy Teucher
- Suggested pre-reading: Good Enough Practices for Scientific Computing
- Course material: https://bcgov.github.io/ds-intro-to-r-2-day/
- What we actually did on the day: https://github.com/bcgov/ds-intro-to-r-2-day/tree/master/what_we_actually_did/online-May-6-and-7-2020
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