sticky note feedback

[tavareshugo]

Day 1 - am

To improve

• (2x) bit too fast in R
• (6x) too slow
  • I think this might be related with the slow start with the spreadsheets lesson
• (3x) Less time on excel
  • one idea would be to actually do the Excel session as the very last thing in the course
• Subsetting syntax
• Having the vector that instructor is creating written somewhere, as sometimes hard to copy exactly what is being typed
• Some more detail on the operations we use
• Some Mac specific issues
• No new info for those that already attended other courses
  • This is an issue that should be solved in the future when there's less redundancy between courses
• Didn't go through solution of first exercise

Good

• (5x) General OK comments, good explanations
• (6x) Good pace
• (3x) Liked messy vs tidy data lesson
• Missing values
• Thorough
• (2x) Interactive
• (2x) manipulating vectors
• (2x) Like sticky note system
• (2x) Like exercise time
• (3x) Materials are available and detailed
• Good time for exercise
• Availability of instructors

[mvanrongen]

Day 1 - pm

To improve

• (2x) Too much time on exercises
• (3x) Little fast/rushed introducing summarising data
• More explanation on purpose of each function
• Run through R software features/options
  • Might be related to the point above: more explanation on purpose of functions
• Coffee breaks a bit long
• Cookie request

Good

• (4x) General OK comments, good explanations
• (2x) Good pace
• (1x) interactive
• (3x) Liked how to manipulate/mutate data
• Liked pipes
• Good summary of what was learnt
• Lot of instructional coding & practical tasks
• Learnt lots today

[mvanrongen]

Day 2 - am

To improve

• (7x) Better explanation of ggplot - overview, and especially how plots are built
• (3x) Slow pace, especially early on
• Too much time spent on material from previous day
• Too early in the morning

Good

• (4x) Like plots / ggplot
• (3x) Clear, step-by-step explanations
• (3x) Hugo is amazing
• (2x) Really useful code for data visualization
• (2x) Good variation in plots covered
• Good pace
• Good amount of time for exercises

[tavareshugo]

Day 2 - pm

To improve

• Too rushed at the end
• Last part was too advanced especially with tiredness
  • (I assume this is referring to gather/spread and databases)
• Too much detail about editing plots
• Loops for plotting multiple variables
• Covering the tutorial on connecting to ENSEMBL would have been useful
• Explain each type of geom function more slowly
• (2x) Not enough time for databases (although it was interesting)

Good

• General nice comments
  • Thanks! Was great!
  • Thank you for amazing 2 day session, really helpful
  • Great topics
  • Enjoyed it, good pace, good explanation, helpful instructors, very good helpful course
  • Really enjoyed the course and learned a lot, great explanations, well-structured content
  • Very clear and concise teaching, good knowledge of basics to help build more advanced techniques
• Interacting with databases very useful
• (2x) Violin plots - multi-modal distributions
• Different ways to present plots - boxplot on top of violin and colouring based on other variables
• All of ggplot and spread and gather
• (2x) Good final recommendation on resources