Summer Hangouts: Colin Twomey and Sarah Lee

Name: Summer Hangouts: Colin Twomey and Sarah Lee
Start: 2023-07-20T15:00:00
End: 2023-07-20T17:30:00
Location: RDDSX space outside the Collaborative ClassroomVan Pelt-Dietrich Library

Coding for Data Science and First Steps with R

July 20, 2023 11:00 am - 1:30 pm

Colin Twomey and Sarah Lee

RDDSX space outside the Collaborative Classroom

Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

Time	Instructor	Title	Description
11:00 – 12:00	Colin Twomey	Coding for Data Science slides and notebook	What’s a programming language, and why use one for data science? What’s a coding assistant, and what can (and can’t) it do for you? In this session, we’ll give a big picture introduction to programming for data science that should be accessible to everyone. No prior coding experience required.
12:00 – 12:30		Lunch
12:30 – 1:30	Sarah Lee	First Steps with R notebook	In this tutorial, we’ll walk through some practical steps for working with R for the first time: covering data organization in spreadsheets, importing data into R, inspecting data, data wrangling, and very basic visualization.

Time

Instructor

Title

Description

11:00 – 12:00

Colin Twomey

Coding for Data Science

slides and notebook

What’s a programming language, and why use one for data science? What’s a coding assistant, and what can (and can’t) it do for you? In this session, we’ll give a big picture introduction to programming for data science that should be accessible to everyone. No prior coding experience required.

12:00 – 12:30

Lunch

12:30 – 1:30

Sarah Lee

First Steps with R

notebook

In this tutorial, we’ll walk through some practical steps for working with R for the first time: covering data organization in spreadsheets, importing data into R, inspecting data, data wrangling, and very basic visualization.