Synchronous meeting agendas
We have 13 synchronous sessions. The last two will be used for oral presentations.
Thu 7 Jan 8:35
Before the meeting:
- Review Week 0 material (in the detailed outline)
- Watch the video for Lesson 1
Meeting agenda:
- Course goals
- How the course works
- Purpose of each component (recorded videos, notes, slides, textbook readings, evaluation activities)
- Questions and discussion
- Demonstration of basics of Rstudio
Tue 12 Jan 8:35
This is a drop-in office hour. Come with questions about the course. In particular, if you are having difficulty settung up R, Rstudio, git, bring those questions.
Thu 14 Jan 8:35
Before the meeeting:
- Work up to Lesson 4 or 5
Meeting agenda:
- Introduce how R markdown documents work and why we use them
- Live coding examples from Lesson 5 and Lesson 6
- Questions and discussion
Links to the HTML and Rmd versions of our live coding exercises for this meeting. To download the file you should right (or control) click the Rmd link to save the file to your computer. Read through the HTML version. Download the Rmd version to your computer and open it up in Rstudio. After class you can access the knitted HTML and Rmd versions we created.
Tue 19 Jan 8:35
This is a drop-in office hour. Come with questions about the course. In particular, you may want to bring questions about Task 4 or Assignment 1.
Thu 21 Jan 8:35
Before the meeeting:
- Work up to Lesson 8
Meeting agenda:
- Live coding examples of using ggplot
Here are links to materials for the synchronous session. Download the Rmd file before class by right (or control) clicking the Rmd link.
Thu 28 Jan 8:35
Before the meeeting:
- Lesson 11
Meeting agenda:
- Live coding examples of
dplyrtools (filter, group_by, mutate, summarise), plotting with facets, and reading data from worksheets
Here are links to materials for the synchronous session. Download the Rmd file before class by right (or control) clicking the Rmd link.
Thu 4 February 8:35
Before the meeeting:
- Lesson 12-14
Meeting agenda:
- Live coding examples of pivoting tools (
pivot_longer,pivot_wider,uniteandseparate), formatting tables (kable,kableExtra) – material for tasks 7 and 8 - Strategies for getting help and learning independently (for Assignment 2)
Here are links to materials for the synchronous session. Download the Rmd file before class by right (or control) clicking the Rmd link.
Thu 11 February 8:35
Before the meeeting:
- Lesson 15-17
Meeting agenda:
- Live coding examples of linear models and smooths
Here are links to materials for the synchronous session. Download the Rmd file before class by right (or control) clicking the Rmd link.
Thu 25 February 8:35
Before the meeeting:
- Lesson 18-20
Meeting agenda:
- Questions about the term project or other course material
- Displaying information on teams and project planning
- Finding data
- R Markdown
Here are links to materials for the synchronous session. Download the Rmd file before class by right (or control) clicking the Rmd link.
Thu 4 March 8:35
Before the meeeting:
- Lesson 21-23
Meeting agenda:
- Project teams, repositories
- PCA, MDS, K-means examples
Here are links to materials for the synchronous session. Download the Rmd file before class by right (or control) clicking the Rmd link.
Thu 11 March 8:35
Before the meeeting:
- Lesson 24-26
Meeting agenda:
- Making slides
- Checking your work
- Dynamic graphics
Here are links to materials for the synchronous session. Download the Rmd file before class by right (or control) clicking the Rmd link.
Thu 18 March 8:35
Before the meeeting:
- Lesson 27-29
Meeting agenda:
- Making maps and alterantives to maps
Here are links to materials for the synchronous session. Download the Rmd file before class by right (or control) clicking the Rmd link.
Thu 25 March 8:35
Before the meeeting:
- Lesson 30-32
Meeting agenda:
- Factors
- Dates and time
- Colours
- Themes
Here are links to materials for the synchronous session. Download the Rmd file before class by right (or control) clicking the Rmd link.
Thu 1 April 8:35
Oral presentations day 1. Each presentation will be a maximum of 5 minutes, plus time for questions, changing to the next group, etc.
Presentations may be made live or can be pre-recorded.
The presentation schedule is in the GitHub repository in the presentation schedule file.
Each person is expected to provide feedback for one presentation today. For instructions see the repository for Assignment 6. The peer evaluation schedule is in the team planning repository.
Tue 6 April 8:35
This is not an office hour day, but instead is a required synchronous session.
Oral presentations day 2. Each presentation will be a maximum of 5 minutes, plus time for questions, changing to the next group, etc.
The presentation schedule is in the GitHub repository in the presentation schedule file.
Presentations may be made live or can be pre-recorded.
Each person is expected to provide feedback for one presentation today. For instructions see the repository for Assignment 6. The peer evaluation schedule is in the team planning repository.