Adjusting the focus: less data, more R

UtrechtUniversity / workshop-introduction-to-R-and-data

Material for the workshop 'Introduction to R & data'

https://utrechtuniversity.github.io/workshop-introduction-to-R-and-data/

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Adjusting the focus: less data, more R #10

Closed bvreede closed 5 years ago

bvreede commented 5 years ago

Is it worth it to move the focus to R and programming, and less on data? That would include removing slides on tidy data, and removing this element from the course description.

Pro: we already have so much material to work through, and understanding data is not the primary aim of the workshop.

Con: if not now then when! Also, our central theme is data, and understanding what makes data workable is an important part of this...

bvreede commented 5 years ago

Considering:

Discussing tidy data (long v wide) only once instead of twice;
Generating a module with questions that would work as stand-alone and can be used in the R cafe as well.