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).

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1. Alison Hill, Data Scientist & Professional Educator @RStudio
   @apreshill
   @apreshill
   https://alison.rbind.io/
   BIG MAGIC WITH R:
   CREATIVE LEARNING BEYOND FEAR
   

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   My inspiration
   today!
   Image credits:
   https://www.elizabethgilbert.com/
   

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   More Less
   Energized Defeated
   Creative Rigid
   Resilient Helpless
   How can we help learners be:
   

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   Learning should not feel like this
   

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   Learning should feel like this
   

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6. Courage
   Enchantment
   Permission
   Persistence
   Trust
   

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7. COURAGE
   

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8. COURAGE IS A PLAN
   

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9. OH:
   “I want / need /
   have been
   instructed to
   learn R”
   Not a
   plan!
   

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10. A plan!
    

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11. A plan!
    

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12. A plan!
    

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    NO COURAGE, NO PLAN
    

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    COURAGEOUS PLANNER
    

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    Your original
    Your Your
    

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17. ENCHANTMENT
    

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18. The joy of working
    with code that
    JUST WORKS
    

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19. The learners’ job?
    ! Make sure the code
    works
    (it should!)
    

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20. The learners’ job?
    ! Understand why
    the code works
    

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21. Your job:
    Teach the docs!
    “It’s not magic; it’s code.”
    — Ben Welsh, L.A. Times Data Editor
    

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22. Use #comments and ?
    ?function_name
    Description
    Usage
    Arguments
    

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    ADDING ENCHANTMENT
    

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    JUST ENOUGH ENCHANTMENT
    

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30. PERMISSION
    

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32. “Your [work] not only doesn’t
    have to be original…it also
    doesn’t have to be important.”
    —Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic
    

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    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
    

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34. CHOOSE
    WISELY
    

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35. NOT
    YOUR
    STYLE
    

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36. NOT
    YOUR
    PROBLEM
    

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37. NOT
    YOUR
    LEVEL
    (YET!)
    

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    Someone else’s Someone else’s
    Your
    

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    PERMISSION TO TRY FOR THIS
    

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    PERMISSION TO FEEL LIKE THIS
    

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44. PERSISTENCE
    

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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
    

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47. Hilary Parker
    https://hilaryparker.com/2013/01/30/hilary-the-most-poisoned-baby-name-in-us-history/
    

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48. Julia Silge
    https://juliasilge.com/blog/my-baby-boomer-name/
    

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49. Monica Gerber
    http://www.monicagerber.com/2018/03/little-bit-of-monica/
    

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50. Brooke Watson
    https://blog.brooke.science/posts/the-us-of-bey/
    

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51. tibble
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53. You aren’t
    doing it
    wrong
    if no one knows what you are doing.
    

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54. TRUST
    

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    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!
    

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59. Where are we?
    

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60. X
    I don’t know X, but I know
    I can figure it out…
    

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61. X
    Courage
    Enchantment
    Permission
    Persistence
    TRUST!
    

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62. X
    Courage
    Enchantment
    Permission
    Persistence
    TRUST!
    

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63. Trey Speegle- https://20x200.com/products/trey-speegle-thank-you
    

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