January 21, 2021
Teaching R is part of my activities as a community organizer, an RStudio Certified Instructor, a conference chair, and a researcher.
January 21, 2021
This talk explores what differentiates novice, practitioner, and expert R programmers, and how transitions between these stages occur.
January 21, 2021
Textbooks for learning a new language always start the same: you learn to say hello, to introduce yourself, and some simple and useful sentences to communicate with others.
January 21, 2021
As enrollments in statistics and data science courses grow and as these courses become more computational, educators are faced with an interesting challenge -- providing timely and meaningful feedback, particularly with online delivery of courses.
January 25, 2019
Many students believe that R is obscure, complex, and difficult to write. However, data from a new large-scale survey of R users conducted by RStudio shows that new R users are taking...
January 25, 2019
The Carpentries is an open, global community teaching researchers the skills to turn data into knowledge. Since 2012 we have taught 700+ R workshops & trained 1600+ volunteer instructors.
January 25, 2019
Of the many coding puzzles on the web, few focus on the programming skills needed for handling untidy data. During my summer internship at RStudio, I worked with Jenny Bryan to develop...
January 25, 2019
RStudio Cloud aims to take the friction out of doing data science with R, allowing students (and instructors) to skip over installation, setup, and IT challenges and go straight to the good stuff.
January 25, 2019
RStudio Cloud aims to take the friction out of doing data science with R, allowing students (and instructors) to skip over installation, setup, and IT challenges and go straight to the good stuff.
January 25, 2019
The first iteration of the R4DS Online Learning Community was created as an online space for learners and mentors to gather and work through the "R for Data Science" text in a collaborative and...
January 25, 2019
The first iteration of the R4DS Online Learning Community was created as an online space for learners and mentors to gather and work through the "R for Data Science" text in a collaborative and...
January 24, 2019
Over the past eight years of doing data science, I’ve made plenty of mistakes, and I’d love to share them with you -- including what I’ve learned and what I’d do differently with some hindsight.
January 24, 2019
Over the past eight years of doing data science, I’ve made plenty of mistakes, and I’d love to share them with you -- including what I’ve learned and what I’d do differently with some hindsight.
January 24, 2019
In this talk, we will present our approach to incorporating R and RStudio into a 10-week introductory statistics course for non-majors Cal Poly. Our primary contribution will be to...
January 24, 2019
There is no doubt that RStudio has had an impact on how introductory statistics is taught in colleges today. When we consider the sheer dominance that giants like Texas Instruments, IBM, and...
