• Teach R software/tools needed for a complete data analysis
• Use git/GitHub for assignments to learn version control
• Teach collaborative practices with group projects
• Final Project: analyze dataset of choice & create website
and 2 min screencast summarizing results
• Focus on key statistical concepts (and less math details)
• Minimize “traditional” slides/lectures, note-taking
• Maximize hands-on code in class using Rstudio & RMarkdown
• Use “mini assessments” & Google Polls to get live feedback
• Motivate concepts with real world data problems
Transforming the Classroom to Teach Statistics and
Data Science with Active Learning
What is Active Learning?
“Anything course-related that all students in a class
session are called upon to do other than simply
watching, listening and taking notes.”
- Felder & Brent (2009)
http://r4ds.had.co.nz/intro.html
1. Data Science (Harvard CS 109) (http://cs109.github.io/2014/)
2. Introduction to Data Science (HSPH BIO 260) (http://datasciencelabs.github.io)
Using Active Learning to teach courses in data science and statistics
Oct 1, 2015
Feb 3, 2015
Goal
Develop a curriculum for an applied statistics and
data science course using active learning techniques
Course websites
ggplot2
dplyr
+dyr
readr
stringr
lubridate
broom
h5r
rvest
jsonlite
Stephanie Hicks
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Contact information:
@stephaniehicks
[email protected]
My poster presented at the Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference in Fall 2016