CHJR 2023

Lessons for the 2023 version of the Center for Health Journalism's Data Fellowship.

With these lessons we'll learn about:

• Basics of R, RStudio and Quarto
• Importing, cleaning and exporting data
• Basic data wrangling
• working with text
• Shaping data
• Visualizing data
• Project management

Installing the software

You need to have both R and RStudio Desktop installed on your computer. Hopefully this is already done.

• You can find the installers here. You need both R and RStudio.
• If on a Mac, make sure you install RStudio into your Applications folder.

There is a chance we might have to install Quarto CLI, but don't worry about it unless we need it. If we have challenges wih Macs installing xcode-cli tools, I have a copy here.

Download this repo

Now we'll download the course materials for the first couple of days of class. They are stored on Github.

1. Go to the repo on Github: github.com/r-journalism/chjr23
2. Click on the big green Code button and choose Download zip.
3. Find the downloaded file and unzip the folder. Mac: Double-click on it. PC directions here
4. Move the unzipped folder to your Desktop (or some other place you can find it).
5. Go back to RStudio and go to File > Open Project. Go find your folder and open the file chjr23.Rproj.

Lessons, etc

For at least the first couple of days we'll use web-published versions of the lessons to read as we work through practice notebooks in the project.

• Start here

Slides

• Day 3: Tidying data
• Day 4: Visualizing data

Extras:

• Tidycensus page | code