sinarueeger / robust-data-analysis-with-r

Workshop for Open Science Summer School 2019 @ EPFL

Robust data analysis: an introduction to R

This repository contains the slides, handbook, and exercises for the workshop Robust data analysis: an introduction to R at the Open Science in Practice Summer School at EPFL, Switzerland. The workshop aims at people that have rarely/not used R in the past, and that do the majority of their analyses in spreadsheet-like tools like Excel.

• Slides
• Handbook
• Workshop: Scripts + RStudio Cloud

Goals

• Understand different steps of a data analysis
• Translate these steps into R
• Be aware of the benefits of programming & R
• Execute an R script
• Know to build an R script
• How to learn R

How to teach

• Ten Quick Tips for Delivering a Programming Lesson by Greg Wilson. Material by @neilccbrown + @gvwilson https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006023
• Curriculum Development by Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel
• Illustrations by @allison_horst: https://github.com/allisonhorst/stats-illustrations/raw/master/openscapes/starwars-rey-rstats.png
• Keynote at #useR2019 + mindset by @juliesquid https://youtu.be/Z8PqwFPqn6Y

Teaching aids

• Parsons problems for teaching progamming
• Other courses: https://carpentries.org/blog/2019/06/reproducible-science-r/
• ggplot flipbook
• demoR
• principles: http://teachtogether.tech/