“Science is reportedly in the middle of a reproducibility crisis.” This is the claim of quite a few these days including an article from ROpenSci which directly references another article by The Conversation. But what is “reproducible research” and how can statistical tools be used to help facilitate it?
Tag: R
Why should students at a small liberal arts college learn R?
From an educational philosophy perspective, learning to program is well aligned with what we strive to teach our students. Becoming proficient in statistical programming requires the ability to think critically about complex problems, to develop scientific research questions, and to apply rigorous analytical methods to answer your questions. I believe these skills are key elements to a strong liberal arts education. We want our students not only to be able to think critically about the world around them, but to have the skills to critically engage with the world. Continue reading “Why should students at a small liberal arts college learn R?”
Geocoding
Recently, I have been assisting several students with geocoding projects for their classes and thesis projects, using geocoding functionality in R. To document this work I have put together several tutorials and resources for students and faculty to use.
Continue reading “Geocoding”R Resources
I am in the process of building a series of tutorials on the Data@Reed website. The current set of tutorials address among the most common tasks in R, such as reading in data, creating variables, and creating plots as well as more complicated tasks like creating html tables and interactive graphs.
R Workshop on 10/1/2014
I will be leading a workshop on R tomorrow from 4:30 to 5:30 pm in ETC 205.
The workshop is designed to be useful for users with all levels of experience. The workshop will include a basic overview of R and RStudio, but will primarily focus on showing students how to make interactive graphs and maps using the googleVis package in R. Everyone in attendance will produce a .html file with a series of interactive data displays.
You can access the slide deck, which was built entirely in R, for the presentation here.
See you tomorrow afternoon!
Data Visualizations and Presentations in R Markdown
Last Saturday I gave a presentation at the National Association for College Admission Counseling Conference titled “Matching the Under-Matched Student: Small Colleges and Big Data Offer Strategies for Success.” The presentation used a statistical analysis and case studies from two small liberal arts colleges to identify ways in which colleges may respond to the finding of Hoxby and Avery (2012) that the vast majority of very high-achieving students who are low-income do not apply to any selective college or university.
Continue reading “Data Visualizations and Presentations in R Markdown”Workshop: Introduction to R
Prepping for Paideia this year, I approached visiting professor Albert Kim about providing a quick one-hour introduction to R. R is the chosen platform for our introductory statistics course and is used by folks across all the sciences (social, physical, natural) across campus. Speaking with faculty and students over the past two years, I regularly hear requests for more R support.