Preparatory-materials.md

Recommended Preparatory Materials

Everything recommended here is free and open.

Probability and statistics

• Khan Academy – Statistics
• Great Short Videos on Probability and Statistics
• Modern Statistics for Modern Biology (book + code + solutions)
• OpenIntro to Probablity and Statistics

R

• RStudio Primers
  • The Basics
  • Work with Data
  • Visualize Data
  • Tidy Your Data
  • Iterate
  • Write Functions
• R for Data Science (An awesome book on using R for data analysis and visualization!)
• R Cheatsheets (Great set of visually-appealing cheatsheets)
• Great webinars including a recent one on 'Intro to Statistics'

Python

• Intro to Python
• Jupyter Notebooks
• Data wrangling
• Data visualization
• Python Plotting for Exploratory Data Analysis
• [Statistics in Python] (https://scipy-lectures.org/packages/statistics/index.html)

Unix command-line

• Command-line refresher from Software Carpentry
• Command-line Bootcamp
• Command-line Guide | Also interactive, just like the bootcamp.