Changes in Chapter 1

[stephaneguerrier]

• [ ] Add a section "about the authors", what do you guys think?
• [x] Modify what to do in case of a question -> add issues on github
• [x] Remove periods in section 1.1.2
• [x] Add video in section 1.1.3
• [x] Include link to rstudio cheatsheet in section 1.1.3
• [x] In Section 1.1.7 add something on installing the package for the class, i.e. devtools::install_github("SMAC-group/stat297")
• [x] In Section 1.2.1 change problem/answer into Example section/subsection
• [ ] Add link to data structures chapter (when available)
• [x] Reorganize sections and subsections in 1.2
• [x] In Section 1.3 add ref to Hadley's book on r packages
• [x] Finish to format license section (add pictures) + changes license on github repo
• [x] Remove Section 1.5
• [x] Center video + add a sentence to introduce video
• [x] After the box (This document is under development and...) add image (data -> R -> explore -> communicate; this file is called "diagram.png") and comment it. Mention that this image is a modified version of Fig 1 of http://r4ds.had.co.nz/explore-intro.html

[munsheet]

Add link to data structures chapter (when available)

• were these the comics and images link?

[mdbeckman]

Some Ch 1 Suggestions:

• I think the blue R box should be larger, and marked more clearly that the blue thing represents "R"... maybe the labels can overlap the edge of the color? Also, spelling correction for "report"

• What do you think about moving the section "Basic Probability & Statistics" to an appendix? It's quite different from the flow of why R, installing R/RStudio, key references, etc. In my opinion, students won't know a lot of this yet if the book assumes no prereqs, so we would want to introduce these things as they come up but could keep them together in an appendix for reference.

Thoughts?

[stephaneguerrier]

Thanks Matt! Sure I think it's a good idea to move the section "Basic Probability & Statistics" to an appendix. For the graph, we should probably think together of a better way to illustrate. Let's discuss this in person!

[NicoKM]

Typo in Chapter 1.

Hello,

There is a typo in the online textbook (https://smac-group.github.io/ds/) in Chapter 1.1. R and RStudio. The following sentence:

"RStudio is generally is making you more comfortable while you use R, but you won’t get very far using RStudio without R."

contains two "is". There should only be one. The corrected sentence should be:

"RStudio is generally making you more comfortable while you use R, but you won’t get very far using RStudio without R."

Nicolas Moser

[stephaneguerrier]

Thanks Nicolas!