Big Magic with R: Creative Learning Beyond Fear, ASA

Presented at the fall meeting for the Oregon chapter of the American Statistical Society in Corvallis (OSU).

Transcript

1. Alison Hill, Data Scientist & Professional Educator @RStudio @apreshill @apreshill https://alison.rbind.io/ BIG MAGIC WITH R: CREATIVE LEARNING BEYOND FEAR
2. 2 My inspiration today! Image credits: https://www.elizabethgilbert.com/
3. 3 More Less Energized Defeated Creative Rigid Resilient Helpless How can we help learners be:
4. 4 Learning should not feel like this
5. 5 Learning should feel like this
6. Courage Enchantment Permission Persistence Trust
7. COURAGE
8. COURAGE IS A PLAN
9. OH: “I want / need / have been instructed to learn R” Not a plan!
10. A plan!
11. A plan!
12. A plan!
13. 13 NO COURAGE, NO PLAN
14. 14 COURAGEOUS PLANNER
15. tibble tidy data IDEAS WORDS R gather map Your original Your Your
16. tibble tidy data IDEAS WORDS R gather map
17. ENCHANTMENT
18. The joy of working with code that JUST WORKS
19. The learners’ job? ! Make sure the code works (it should!)
20. The learners’ job? ! Understand why the code works
21. Your job: Teach the docs! “It’s not magic; it’s code.” — Ben Welsh, L.A. Times Data Editor
22. Use #comments and ? ?function_name Description Usage Arguments
26. tibble tidy data IDEAS WORDS R gather map
27. tibble tidy data IDEAS WORDS R gather map
28. 28 ADDING ENCHANTMENT
29. 29 JUST ENOUGH ENCHANTMENT
30. PERMISSION
32. “Your [work] not only doesn’t have to be original…it also doesn’t have to be important.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic
33. 33 Find projects to copy • RWeekly “R in the Real World”: https://rweekly.org/#RintheRealWorld • Julia Silge (Data Scientist, Stack Overflow) https://juliasilge.com • Dave Robinson (Data Scientist, DataCamp) http://varianceexplained.org • Maëlle Salmon (ROpenSci, LockeData) http://www.masalmon.eu • Lucy! and Nick (Vandy biostats students) http://livefreeordichotomize.com
34. CHOOSE WISELY
35. NOT YOUR STYLE
36. NOT YOUR PROBLEM
37. NOT YOUR LEVEL (YET!)
38. tibble tidy data IDEAS WORDS R gather map
39. tibble tidy data IDEAS WORDS R gather map Someone else’s Someone else’s Your
40. 40 PERMISSION TO TRY FOR THIS
41. 41 PERMISSION TO FEEL LIKE THIS
44. PERSISTENCE
45. “For most of history people just made things, and they didn’t make such a big freaking deal about it.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic
47. Hilary Parker https://hilaryparker.com/2013/01/30/hilary-the-most-poisoned-baby-name-in-us-history/
48. Julia Silge https://juliasilge.com/blog/my-baby-boomer-name/
49. Monica Gerber http://www.monicagerber.com/2018/03/little-bit-of-monica/
50. Brooke Watson https://blog.brooke.science/posts/the-us-of-bey/
51. tibble tidy data IDEAS WORDS R gather map
52. tibble tidy data IDEAS WORDS R gather map Your original Your Your
53. You aren’t doing it wrong if no one knows what you are doing.
54. TRUST
56. 56 Trust • GitHub: https://github.com – Open an account – You will need this: http://happygitwithr.com • Your own website – My recommendation (obvious, biased): use blogdown – You will need this: https://bookdown.org/yihui/blogdown/ • A friend! – Make sure someone else ! at your code! – Ideas: • Partner up with someone in your team / lab / company • Find a coding partner at your local R Meet-up or R-Ladies group • Ask the #rstats twitterverse!
59. Where are we?
60. X I don’t know X, but I know I can figure it out…
61. X Courage Enchantment Permission Persistence TRUST!
62. X Courage Enchantment Permission Persistence TRUST!
63. Trey Speegle- https://20x200.com/products/trey-speegle-thank-you