Introductions

• Who are you?
• Are you DOH, Rockefeller, Other?
• Why did you sign up for this workshop?
• Have you ever browsed Encyclopedia Titanica?

Meta Objectives

The content of these workshops is not (entirely) arbitrary. After completing the Titanic Workshop series, participants should have enough:

• R skills to read a website like R-Bloggers.
• Knowledge about the R ecosystem to make informed choices about how to learn more.
• Confidence to use R in an analysis.

Later today, tell me how we are doing!

Barriers

• Have any of you used R for an analysis?
• Did you succeed?
  • Challenges?
  • Show stoppers?

Learning Objectives

• Project Structure
• Demo: Take Five
• Reproducible Reports: RMarkdown
• Packages
  • Where To Find
  • How To Select
  • How To Learn
• Demo: Food Safety Records
• Learning Resources
• Barriers Revisited

Disclaimer:

• This is NOT a statistics workshop
• This is a How-To in R workshop
• They had five days to sink the Titanic
• We only have 3 hours for today's cruise . . . .

Use The Provided Code!

• In previous workshops we gave you R scripts.
• This workshop will focus on projects, not individual script files.
• The concept has not changed, it just got bigger. And more important.
• If you want to learn, you have to get your hands dirty.

Just (Beyond) The Tip

R is too big for any single workshop series . . . .

Much to learn, you still have
--Yoda

Captain Smith Says:

You must write code!

He is the captain sank his boat

Interactive presentations

Take this opportunity!

Stupid Questions?

• There aren't any!
• We are here to help you!
• Stop us when you get lost!
• Avoid icebergs off the starboard bow!

Brought to you by:

New York State Department of Health Epidemiology and Biostatistics Community of Practice (EBCoP)

Suny Albany, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy

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Photo of the iceberg believed to have sunk the RMS Titanic