Course planning and details - 2024-05-06

Location: Kaffefair, Strandvejen 19, 9000 Aalborg
Date: 2024-05-06
Pre-course assignments dates (\~3-5 hrs to complete, suggest they dedicate a full day to it):
- Start: Apr. 06, 2024
- Due: May. 01, 2024

NOTE: We have to end before 15:00 on the last day.

Instructors

Instructors/helpers: @lwjohnst86, @AndersAskeland, @signekb, @isabellvse

Before the course, please review the CONTRIBUTING guide, Code of Conduct, and the Tips for instructors or helpers in the Guides website.

Day	Topic	Instructor
Day 1	Introduction to the course	@lwjohnst86
Day 1	Basic setup and workflow	@lwjohnst86
Day 1	Importing data, fast!	@lwjohnst86
Day 1	Save time, don't repeat yourself: Making functions	@isabellvse
Day 2	Save time, don't repeat yourself: Using functionals	@signekb
Day 2	Processing and joining datasets for cleaning	@AndersAskeland
Day 3	Quickly re-arranging data with pivots	@AndersAskeland
Day 3	Hands-on exercises
Day 3	Closing remarks	@lwjohnst86

Several of the below tasks (for the admin/lead instructor) can be done using the r3admin package.

[ ] Apr. 06, 2024: (Optional) Send an calendar invite to registered participants with link to pre-course tasks and website.
[x] Apr. 22, 2024: Send a calendar invite to instructors/helpers for course location (with planning issue link), dinner locations, and post-course debrief.
- Include registered participants with link to pre-course tasks and website.
[x] \~Apr. 22, 2024: Pre-course instructor meeting:
- Go briefly over Instructor and Helper with new instructors.
- Mention about post-course debrief (described in the Guides site).
- (For intro course) Have all instructors/helpers give their GitHub user names.
[x] Apr. 28, 2024: Send a reminder to everyone to complete tasks.
[x] May. 01, 2024: Check that all participants have completed pre-course material.
[x] May. 03, 2024: Get participants into groups (\~3-4 people per group).
[ ] May. 03, 2024: Assign instructors to groups.
[x] May. 03, 2024: Open up the Google Forms feedback survey

[ ] Set up repo to host code-along that instructors will use (course dependent).

[ ] Close the Google Forms feedback survey
[ ] Update git tag and release it (r3admin::create_course_tag())
[ ] Update course metadata in r3admin/data/courses.yaml
[ ] Update instructor/helper metadata in r3admin/data/courses.yaml and r3admin/data/people/
[ ] Update Zenodo DOI