Core team minutes and agenda

Running log of minutes and agenda for the datascibc core team meetings

Minutes 2016-04-13

DSBC course

• branding
• extensions x2
• power bar x3
• USB sticks x 12
• single page summary
• slack channel
• testing everything on mac and pc

Todos

• suggest that everyone iterates their own work on a deadline then pass it on
• separate focus on slides and
• copy course lecture content onto website
• eventbrite
• contact sundiya

Lecture notes in general

• set-up
  • need github account
• focus more on the practical data qn
• objectives
  • what you get for free concept

Excel hell

• entity examples
• data security
• Opinionated 1 vs 0 rather than T/F (easily sum)
• show some simple excel calculations
• don't mix formula rows and data (but formula columns are OK)

R for newbies

explain and try

• 1:3
• row and column matric subscripting

Getting data into R

gui version of import into R studio explain libraries explain CSV explain path and location of file

• spaces in paths stringasfactors need to explain column names and referencing test googlesheets library on windows explain gs_ls()
• would be good to see examples
• screenshots google forms and google sheets how to view your data in Rstudio course feedback intro as google sheets - live!!

Tidying data

tidyr - pick do dates last? difficult lubridate? show how the date functions work screenshots escaping characters regular expressions

What is reproducible science

what are we trying to teach here

• objectives what it means to you - you not repeating work, fiddling in GUI
• writing down what you do
• tracking changes introduce github and the desktop version
• show people how to join
• git within r studio benefits
• you update something early in the workflow, but you don't have to manually test the git module in r studio show the benefit by changing a cell in google sheets and then showing the final output

Data visualistion

too much emphasis on 3d objectives show a bad excel chart at the beginning (of the actual data) emphasis on story telling not stats narrative colour brewer - show people how to do this in R chart guide charts you'd struggle to do

• scatter plot
• bubble plot

Agenda 2016-01-20

• website plans (as per this issue )