I still think it's a cool exercise but it caused some unnecessary struggle, so let's replace with something more basic?
One idea: What about a graph of babynames? It's what we use in the summer school: https://rcatlord.github.io/GSinR/ (look at intro tab - has slides where we talk them through it and then code for them to modify. We do it as a guided live coding, actually students might like that on the first session, so we nudge them in gently?
I still think it's a cool exercise but it caused some unnecessary struggle, so let's replace with something more basic?
One idea: What about a graph of babynames? It's what we use in the summer school: https://rcatlord.github.io/GSinR/ (look at intro tab - has slides where we talk them through it and then code for them to modify. We do it as a guided live coding, actually students might like that on the first session, so we nudge them in gently?
Other ideas welcome