R in 3 Months Info Session

Before We Start

Please take the survey at https://rfor.us/familiaritysurvey

Slides

Follow along with the slides!

Logistics

  • Recording, slides, and report will be shared by email

  • David will talk about R in general

  • Gracielle will talk about R in 3 Months

  • Rachel Udow will share her experience in R in 3 Months

  • If you have any questions, please put them in the chat (we’ll stop if necessary)

  • There will also be time for Q&A at the end

Who Are We?

What is R?

What I tell people who just want the basics:

  • R is a high-powered Excel

What I really want to say:

  • R is a tool that can completely revolutionize how you work with data

Data Analysis in a Snap

penguins |>
  summarize(
    avg_bill_length = mean(
      bill_length_mm,
      na.rm = TRUE
    )
  )
penguins |>
  group_by(species) |>
  summarize(
    avg_bill_length = mean(
      bill_length_mm,
      na.rm = TRUE
    )
  )

High-Quality Data Visualization

Packages

R’s Killer Feature: Quarto

Familiarity Survey

R is a Workflow Tool That Happens to Do Stats

tidycensus

get_acs(
  geography = "state",
  variables = "B19013_001",
  year = 2023
) |>
  select(NAME, estimate)

The Best Reason to Learn R

How Does R in 3 Months Work?

  • Course materials

  • Live sessions

  • Co-working sessions

  • Project assignments and personalized feedback

  • 1-on-1 meetings

  • Community

Live Sessions

  • When: Thursdays at 10 am PT
  • Duration: 1 hour
  • Goal: review, exercise, ask questions

Co-Working Sessions

  • When: Tuesdays at 10 am PT
  • Duration: 1 hour
  • Goal: exercise and socialize

Project Assignments and Personalized Feedback

  • Get personalized feedback when submitting assignments within the 3 months

  • Assignments usually take a few minutes to complete early in the program, and longer towards the end

  • It’s a project-oriented program!

  • Example project assignment

What Feedback Looks Like

Example feedback

Final Project

Example final projects

1-on-1 Meetings

  • When: on demand

  • Duration: 30 minutes

  • Goal: chat, ask questions, debug together

Community

We have a Discord server to learn together, share accomplishments, frustrations, and pet pictures!

What Will You Have Access To?

Lifetime Access

Only happen during the 3 months, but you’ll have access to them forever.

  • Course materials and Discord server

  • Live sessions

  • Feedback on project assignments

Access Only During R in 3 Months

Only happen during the 3 months and are not recorded.

  • Co-working sessions

  • 1-on-1 meetings

Rachel Udow

Learn More

https://rfortherestofus.com/3months

Questions?

David

david@rfortherestofus.com

Gracielle

gracielle@rfortherestofus.com