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</div> </nav> <div id="main" data-behavior="2" class=" hasCoverMetaIn "> <section class="postShorten-group main-content-wrap"> <article class="postShorten postShorten--thumbnailimg-bottom" itemscope itemType="http://schema.org/BlogPosting"> <div class="postShorten-wrap"> <div class="postShorten-header"> <h1 class="postShorten-title" itemprop="headline"> <a class="link-unstyled" href="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/2021/04/that-s-what-nicola-said/"> That's what Nicola said </a> </h1> <div class="postShorten-meta post-meta"> <p itemprop="author"> by mine </p> <time itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2021-04-21T00:00:00Z"> April 21, 2021 </time> <span>in</span> <a class="category-link" href="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/categories/musings">musings</a> </div> </div> <div class="postShorten-excerpt" itemprop="articleBody"> For the last year, I’ve watched just about every COVID-19 briefing by the Scottish Government, most of which are delivered by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. Earlier on in the pandemic these were daily updates, lately it seems like once a week. The more often they happen, the worse you know things are going… If I’ve chatted with you about COVID, you have probably heard me say that I am very impressed by the way she delivers these updates. <p> <a href="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/2021/04/that-s-what-nicola-said/" class="postShorten-excerpt_link link">Continue reading</a> </p> </div> </div> </article> <article class="postShorten postShorten--thumbnailimg-bottom" itemscope itemType="http://schema.org/BlogPosting"> <div class="postShorten-wrap"> <div class="postShorten-header"> <h1 class="postShorten-title" itemprop="headline"> <a class="link-unstyled" href="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/2021/03/open-source-contribution-as-a-student-project/"> Open-source contribution as a student project </a> </h1> <div class="postShorten-meta post-meta"> <p itemprop="author"> by mine </p> <time itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2021-03-22T00:00:00Z"> March 22, 2021 </time> <span>in</span> <a class="category-link" href="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/categories/rstats">rstats</a> </div> </div> <div class="postShorten-excerpt" itemprop="articleBody"> An opportunity to teach, an opportunity to give back… If you’ve seen one of my data science education talks or attended one of my workshops in the last few years, you’ve probably heard me talk about the unvotes package in R. This package provides the voting history of countries in the United Nations General Assembly, along with information such as date, description, and topics for each vote. I love using data from this package in my teaching, especially on day one of class, because the data are rich while being accessible. <p> <a href="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/2021/03/open-source-contribution-as-a-student-project/" class="postShorten-excerpt_link link">Continue reading</a> </p> </div> </div> </article> <article class="postShorten postShorten--thumbnailimg-left" itemscope itemType="http://schema.org/BlogPosting"> <div class="postShorten-wrap"> <div class="postShorten-header"> <h1 class="postShorten-title" itemprop="headline"> <a class="link-unstyled" href="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/2021/03/tiktok-lockdown-and-introduction-to-r/"> TikTok, lockdown, and introduction to R </a> </h1> <div class="postShorten-meta post-meta"> <p itemprop="author"> by Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel </p> <time itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2021-03-15T00:00:00Z"> March 15, 2021 </time> <span>in</span> <a class="category-link" href="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/categories/teaching">teaching</a> </div> </div> <div class="postShorten-excerpt" itemprop="articleBody"> Last weekend Maria Tackett and I gave an introduction to R workshop as part of the 2021 ENAR Fostering Diversity in Biostatistics Workshop for high school and undergraduate students. Our goal was to give them a taster for exploring and visualizing data with R and, hopefully, leave them wanting to learn more. We only had 75 minutes for the workshop and a totally beginner crowd. We knew that they would be a mix of undergraduate and high school students, but didn’t know much else about them as we prepared for the workshop. <p> <a href="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/2021/03/tiktok-lockdown-and-introduction-to-r/" class="postShorten-excerpt_link link">Continue reading</a> </p> </div> </div> <a href="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/2021/03/tiktok-lockdown-and-introduction-to-r/"> <div class="postShorten-thumbnailimg"> <img alt="" itemprop="image" src="https://i.imgur.com/hZjJgTu.png"/> </div> </a> </article> <article class="postShorten postShorten--thumbnailimg-left" itemscope itemType="http://schema.org/BlogPosting"> <div class="postShorten-wrap"> <div class="postShorten-header"> <h1 class="postShorten-title" itemprop="headline"> <a class="link-unstyled" href="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/2021/03/in-the-beginning-was-r-markdown/"> In the beginning was R Markdown </a> </h1> <div class="postShorten-meta post-meta"> <p itemprop="author"> by mine </p> <time itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2021-03-03T00:00:00Z"> March 3, 2021 </time> <span>in</span> <a class="category-link" href="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/categories/rstats">rstats</a>, <a class="category-link" href="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/categories/teaching">teaching</a> </div> </div> <div class="postShorten-excerpt" itemprop="articleBody"> Last week I attended the Toronto Workshop on Reproducibility where I had to the pleasure of giving one of the keynotes. When I was asked to give a keynote for this event on teaching, I had the idea of reflecting on almost 9 years of teaching with introductory statistics and data science through the lens of reproducibility. I would have said “teaching with R Markdown”, but looking back through my notes, this wasn’t true as the rmarkdown package has not been around for that long – turns out I started teaching with it when it was just knitr. <p> <a href="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/2021/03/in-the-beginning-was-r-markdown/" class="postShorten-excerpt_link link">Continue reading</a> </p> </div> </div> <a href="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/2021/03/in-the-beginning-was-r-markdown/"> <div class="postShorten-thumbnailimg"> <img alt="" itemprop="image" src="https://i.imgur.com/gzUwqdj.jpg"/> </div> </a> </article> <article class="postShorten postShorten--thumbnailimg-bottom" itemscope itemType="http://schema.org/BlogPosting"> <div class="postShorten-wrap"> <div class="postShorten-header"> <h1 class="postShorten-title" itemprop="headline"> <a class="link-unstyled" href="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/2021/03/themoment-tweets/"> #TheMoment tweets </a> </h1> <div class="postShorten-meta post-meta"> <p itemprop="author"> by mine </p> <time itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2021-03-01T00:00:00Z"> March 1, 2021 </time> <span>in</span> <a class="category-link" href="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/categories/rstats">rstats</a> </div> </div> <div class="postShorten-excerpt" itemprop="articleBody"> <script src="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/rmarkdown-libs/header-attrs/header-attrs.js"></script> <script src="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/rmarkdown-libs/twitter-widget/widgets.js"></script> <p>On Sunday morning I came across a tweet by NPR’s <a href="https://www.npr.org/people/4462099/lourdes-garcia-navarro?t=1614556725862">Lulu Garcia-Navarro</a> morning asking people when they knew things were going to be different due to COVID. Whenever I read replies to a tweet like this I’m always tempted to scrape all the replies and take a look at the data to see if anything interesting emerges.</p> <p> <a href="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/2021/03/themoment-tweets/" class="postShorten-excerpt_link link">Continue reading</a> </p> </div> </div> </article> <article class="postShorten postShorten--thumbnailimg-bottom" itemscope itemType="http://schema.org/BlogPosting"> <div class="postShorten-wrap"> <div class="postShorten-header"> <h1 class="postShorten-title" itemprop="headline"> <a class="link-unstyled" href="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/2020/11/github-workflow-for-data-science-project-proposals/"> GitHub workflow for data science project proposals </a> </h1> <div class="postShorten-meta post-meta"> <p itemprop="author"> by Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel </p> <time itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2020-11-08T00:00:00Z"> November 8, 2020 </time> <span>in</span> <a class="category-link" href="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/categories/teaching">teaching</a> </div> </div> <div class="postShorten-excerpt" itemprop="articleBody"> <script src="{{< blogdown/postref >}}index_files/header-attrs/header-attrs.js"></script> <p>Over the past few years I’ve been working on moving from a mindset of end-of-semester project to semester-long project. Inevitably students end up doing lots of work as the deadline approaches at the end of the semester (and I can’t blame them, that’s how I work around deadlines too, and how just about anyone I know works), but creating opportunities for them to get started on their projects earlier in the semester is very important.</p> <p> <a href="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/2020/11/github-workflow-for-data-science-project-proposals/" class="postShorten-excerpt_link link">Continue reading</a> </p> </div> </div> </article> <article class="postShorten postShorten--thumbnailimg-bottom" itemscope itemType="http://schema.org/BlogPosting"> <div class="postShorten-wrap"> <div class="postShorten-header"> <h1 class="postShorten-title" itemprop="headline"> <a class="link-unstyled" href="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/2020/08/data-science-tutorials-with-learnr-and-gradethis/"> Data science tutorials with learnr and gradethis </a> </h1> <div class="postShorten-meta post-meta"> <p itemprop="author"> by Lee Suddaby, Zeno Kujawa </p> <time itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2020-08-31T00:00:00Z"> August 31, 2020 </time> <span>in</span> <a class="category-link" href="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/categories/teaching">teaching</a>, <a class="category-link" href="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/categories/shiny">shiny</a>, <a class="category-link" href="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/categories/rstats">rstats</a> </div> </div> <div class="postShorten-excerpt" itemprop="articleBody"> <p><em>This post was contributed by <a href="https://github.com/lee-suddaby">Lee Suddaby</a> and <a href="https://github.com/ZenoMK">Zeno Kujawa</a>, second year students at the University of Edinburgh majoring in Mathematics and Data Science, respectively.</em></p> <p>Over the university summer break, we (Zeno and Lee) were busy making preparations for moving more of our <a href="https://introds.org/">Introduction to Data Science</a> course from being human-graded to computer-graded. We both took this course in the Fall of 2019, as part of our first-year studies at the University of Edinburgh, and this is where we first learned R.</p> <p> <a href="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/2020/08/data-science-tutorials-with-learnr-and-gradethis/" class="postShorten-excerpt_link link">Continue reading</a> </p> </div> </div> </article> <div class="pagination-bar"> <ul class="pagination"> <li class="pagination-next"> <a class="btn btn--default btn--small" href="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/page/2/"> <span>OLDER POSTS</span> <i class="fa fa-angle-right text-base icon-ml"></i> </a> </li> <li class="pagination-number">page 1 of 26</li> </ul> </div> </section> <footer id="footer" class="main-content-wrap"> <span class="copyrights"> © 2021 Citizen Statistician. 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Earlier on in the pandemic these were daily updates, lately it seems like once a week. The more often they happen, the worse you know things are going… If I’ve chatted with you about COVID, you have probably heard me say that I am very impressed by the way she delivers these updates.</div> </div> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <hr> </div> <div class="media"> <div class="media-body"> <a class="link-unstyled" href="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/2021/03/open-source-contribution-as-a-student-project/"> <h3 class="media-heading">Open-source contribution as a student project</h3> </a> <span class="media-meta"> <span class="media-date text-small"> Mar 3, 2021 </span> </span> <div class="media-content hide-xs font-merryweather">An opportunity to teach, an opportunity to give back… If you’ve seen one of my data science education talks or attended one of my workshops in the last few years, you’ve probably heard me talk about the unvotes package in R. This package provides the voting history of countries in the United Nations General Assembly, along with information such as date, description, and topics for each vote. I love using data from this package in my teaching, especially on day one of class, because the data are rich while being accessible.</div> </div> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <hr> </div> <div class="media"> <div class="media-body"> <a class="link-unstyled" href="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/2021/03/tiktok-lockdown-and-introduction-to-r/"> <h3 class="media-heading">TikTok, lockdown, and introduction to R</h3> </a> <span class="media-meta"> <span class="media-date text-small"> Mar 3, 2021 </span> </span> <div class="media-content hide-xs font-merryweather">Last weekend Maria Tackett and I gave an introduction to R workshop as part of the 2021 ENAR Fostering Diversity in Biostatistics Workshop for high school and undergraduate students. Our goal was to give them a taster for exploring and visualizing data with R and, hopefully, leave them wanting to learn more. We only had 75 minutes for the workshop and a totally beginner crowd. We knew that they would be a mix of undergraduate and high school students, but didn’t know much else about them as we prepared for the workshop.</div> </div> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <hr> </div> <div class="media"> <div class="media-body"> <a class="link-unstyled" href="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/2021/03/in-the-beginning-was-r-markdown/"> <h3 class="media-heading">In the beginning was R Markdown</h3> </a> <span class="media-meta"> <span class="media-date text-small"> Mar 3, 2021 </span> </span> <div class="media-content hide-xs font-merryweather">Last week I attended the Toronto Workshop on Reproducibility where I had to the pleasure of giving one of the keynotes. When I was asked to give a keynote for this event on teaching, I had the idea of reflecting on almost 9 years of teaching with introductory statistics and data science through the lens of reproducibility. I would have said “teaching with R Markdown”, but looking back through my notes, this wasn’t true as the rmarkdown package has not been around for that long – turns out I started teaching with it when it was just knitr.</div> </div> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <hr> </div> <div class="media"> <div class="media-body"> <a class="link-unstyled" href="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/2021/03/themoment-tweets/"> <h3 class="media-heading">#TheMoment tweets</h3> </a> <span class="media-meta"> <span class="media-date text-small"> Mar 3, 2021 </span> </span> <div class="media-content hide-xs font-merryweather"> <script src="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/rmarkdown-libs/header-attrs/header-attrs.js"></script> <script src="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/rmarkdown-libs/twitter-widget/widgets.js"></script> <p>On Sunday morning I came across a tweet by NPR’s <a href="https://www.npr.org/people/4462099/lourdes-garcia-navarro?t=1614556725862">Lulu Garcia-Navarro</a> morning asking people when they knew things were going to be different due to COVID. Whenever I read replies to a tweet like this I’m always tempted to scrape all the replies and take a look at the data to see if anything interesting emerges.</p> </div> </div> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <hr> </div> <div class="media"> <div class="media-body"> <a class="link-unstyled" href="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/2020/11/github-workflow-for-data-science-project-proposals/"> <h3 class="media-heading">GitHub workflow for data science project proposals</h3> </a> <span class="media-meta"> <span class="media-date text-small"> Nov 11, 2020 </span> </span> <div class="media-content hide-xs font-merryweather"> <script src="{{< blogdown/postref >}}index_files/header-attrs/header-attrs.js"></script> <p>Over the past few years I’ve been working on moving from a mindset of end-of-semester project to semester-long project. Inevitably students end up doing lots of work as the deadline approaches at the end of the semester (and I can’t blame them, that’s how I work around deadlines too, and how just about anyone I know works), but creating opportunities for them to get started on their projects earlier in the semester is very important.</p> </div> </div> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <hr> </div> <div class="media"> <div class="media-body"> <a class="link-unstyled" href="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/2020/08/data-science-tutorials-with-learnr-and-gradethis/"> <h3 class="media-heading">Data science tutorials with learnr and gradethis</h3> </a> <span class="media-meta"> <span class="media-date text-small"> Aug 8, 2020 </span> </span> <div class="media-content hide-xs font-merryweather"><p><em>This post was contributed by <a href="https://github.com/lee-suddaby">Lee Suddaby</a> and <a href="https://github.com/ZenoMK">Zeno Kujawa</a>, second year students at the University of Edinburgh majoring in Mathematics and Data Science, respectively.</em></p> <p>Over the university summer break, we (Zeno and Lee) were busy making preparations for moving more of our <a href="https://introds.org/">Introduction to Data Science</a> course from being human-graded to computer-graded. We both took this course in the Fall of 2019, as part of our first-year studies at the University of Edinburgh, and this is where we first learned R.</p></div> </div> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <hr> </div> <div class="media"> <div class="media-body"> <a class="link-unstyled" href="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/2020/06/teaching-statistics-and-data-science-online-workshops/"> <h3 class="media-heading">Teaching statistics and data science online workshops</h3> </a> <span class="media-meta"> <span class="media-date text-small"> Jun 6, 2020 </span> </span> <div class="media-content hide-xs font-merryweather"><p>Colin Rundel and I will be teaching a series of three virtual workshops in July 2020 on teaching statistics and data science online.</p></div> </div> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <hr> </div> <div class="media"> <div class="media-body"> <a class="link-unstyled" href="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/2020/06/preparing-to-teach-2020-what-did-we-learn/"> <h3 class="media-heading">Preparing to Teach 2020: What did we learn?</h3> </a> <span class="media-meta"> <span class="media-date text-small"> Jun 6, 2020 </span> </span> <div class="media-content hide-xs font-merryweather"><p><em>This post was contributed by <a href="https://sastoudt.github.io/">Sara Stoudt</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/sastoudt">@sastoudt</a>). Thank you Sara!</em></p> <p>On May 15th and 20th the third <a href="https://preparingtoteach.org/">Preparing for Careers in Teaching Statistics and Data Science Workshop</a> was held. 37 graduate students and recent PhDs gathered (remotely of course) to learn from Allan Rossman (Cal Poly), Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel (University of Edinburgh, Duke, RStudio), Jo Hardin (Pomona), Beth Chance (Cal Poly), Lucy D’Agostino McGowan (Wake Forest), and Ulrike Genschel (Iowa State).</p></div> </div> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <hr> </div> <div class="media"> <div class="media-body"> <a class="link-unstyled" href="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/2020/06/letter-to-copss-executive-committee/"> <h3 class="media-heading">Letter to the COPSS Executive Committee</h3> </a> <span class="media-meta"> <span class="media-date text-small"> Jun 6, 2020 </span> </span> <div class="media-content hide-xs font-merryweather"><p>As recent, current, and future chairs of the American Statistical Association (ASA) Section on Statistics and Data Science Education, we have sent the following letter to Ron Wasserstein (Executive Director of ASA) and Bhramar Mukherjee (COPSS Chair) and requested that they share it with the COPSS Executive Committee.</p></div> </div> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <hr> </div> </div> </div> <div class="modal-footer"> <p class="results-count text-medium" data-message-zero="no post found" data-message-one="1 post found" data-message-other="{n} posts found"> 180 posts found </p> </div> </div> </div> <div id="cover" style="background-image:url('http://www.citizen-statistician.org/images/cover.jpg');"></div> <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.2.4/jquery.min.js" integrity="sha256-BbhdlvQf/xTY9gja0Dq3HiwQF8LaCRTXxZKRutelT44=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script> <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/highlight.js/9.12.0/highlight.min.js" integrity="sha256-/BfiIkHlHoVihZdc6TFuj7MmJ0TWcWsMXkeDFwhi0zw=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script> <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/fancybox/2.1.7/js/jquery.fancybox.min.js" integrity="sha256-GEAnjcTqVP+vBp3SSc8bEDQqvWAZMiHyUSIorrWwH50=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script> <script src="http://www.citizen-statistician.org/js/script-qi9wbxp2ya2j6p7wx1i6tgavftewndznf4v0hy2gvivk1rxgc3lm7njqb6bz.min.js"></script> <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/highlight.js/9.12.0/languages/r.min.js"></script> <script lang="javascript"> window.onload = updateMinWidth; window.onresize = updateMinWidth; document.getElementById("sidebar").addEventListener("transitionend", updateMinWidth); function updateMinWidth() { var sidebar = document.getElementById("sidebar"); var main = document.getElementById("main"); main.style.minWidth = ""; var w1 = getComputedStyle(main).getPropertyValue("min-width"); var w2 = getComputedStyle(sidebar).getPropertyValue("width"); var w3 = getComputedStyle(sidebar).getPropertyValue("left"); main.style.minWidth = `calc(${w1} - ${w2} - ${w3})`; } </script> <script> $(document).ready(function() { hljs.configure({ classPrefix: '', useBR: false }); $('pre.code-highlight > code, pre > code').each(function(i, block) { if (!$(this).hasClass('codeblock')) { $(this).addClass('codeblock'); } hljs.highlightBlock(block); }); }); </script> <script id="dsq-count-scr" src="//citizen-statistician.disqus.com/count.js" async></script> </body> </html>