I've been tasked with teaching a few very short introduction to R workshops for life scientists. They're about 3 hrs long. I spend about a half hour on motivation/introduction with slides and a general talk, about an hour of hands-on introduction, and about an hour of introduction to something like a gene expression analysis using Bioconductor packages.
Evaluations come back mostly positive, but I'm still not convinced that this short lesson is that effective. The Software/Data Carpentry lesson material is pretty good, but not meant to be used for 1-2 hour sessions. I'd really like to see some community input on lesson material development for a very short introduction to R workshop for experts in some particular domain (life sciences in my case). If/when I get around to revamping this lesson above I'll post here again.
I've been tasked with teaching a few very short introduction to R workshops for life scientists. They're about 3 hrs long. I spend about a half hour on motivation/introduction with slides and a general talk, about an hour of hands-on introduction, and about an hour of introduction to something like a gene expression analysis using Bioconductor packages.
The materials are here: https://github.com/bioconnector/workshops/tree/master/lessons/intro-r-lifesci
Evaluations come back mostly positive, but I'm still not convinced that this short lesson is that effective. The Software/Data Carpentry lesson material is pretty good, but not meant to be used for 1-2 hour sessions. I'd really like to see some community input on lesson material development for a very short introduction to R workshop for experts in some particular domain (life sciences in my case). If/when I get around to revamping this lesson above I'll post here again.