Upcoming Courses
JANUARY & JULY 2019
Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
If interested in these courses or a custom class, send me an email: ashton.drew *at* kdv-decisions.com
Introduction to R and R Studio
A 2-day introduction to working with your data in R. The course is suitable for individuals who have never coded in any language or those wishing to pick up a new programming language. You will learn to read, inspect, manipulate, analyze, visualize, and save your data products. Emphasis is placed on preparing you to become self-sufficient using the learning resources available to help you understand R scripts and continue to build your skills. (TBD)
Intermediate Graphs and Tables
A 2-day of guided practice to build and fine-tune visual presentations of data results suitable for publication. We also cover strategies of data management and writing functions to read, tidy, and plot data where you anticipate a need to repeatedly generate similar models, tables, and graphics. (TBD)
Data Dashboards, Apps, and Auto-Reports
A 3-day intermediate/advanced course for those who are already comfortable in R but would now like to learn to write reactive scripts with R Shiny and other R packages that facilitate data interactions. (TBD)
FEBRUARY 2019
Barcelona, Spain
Hosted by: Transmitting Science
Registration and payment via course website
Interactive Data Analysis and Visualization with R Shiny
This 5-day course is for individuals considering developing Shiny apps to deliver their research. Thus, the goal will be to teach the skills necessary to translate static products (your current analysis in R) to dynamic products delivered via a simple web-based graphic-user interface. After a brief survey of the available basic tools (widgets such as slider bars, check boxes, and pick lists), we will move quickly to learn more advanced interactive features. Activities interspersed throughout the class will provide hands-on practice with sample biological and ecological data. By the end of the course, students will have built a portfolio of example code and will have designed, constructed, and published at least one example Shiny app. (Feb 18-22)
Additional Courses in Prep for 2019
Introduction to R
Hosted by: Transmitting Science, Barcelona, Spain
Registration and payment via course website
This 5-day course is for ecologists, biologists, and other natural scientists who have never used R and, possibly, have never done any programming at all. By the end of the course, the participants should be able to import / export data-bases, manage data sets, carry out basic statistic analyses, draw high quality graphs, and program functions. Students are encouraged to bring a dataset with them along with a “previously completed” statistical analysis or graphic. Ideally something fairly introductory and simple from the student’s own field of practice that you’ve worked with in Excel, SAS, or elsewhere. Students will work with these data on the last day to ensure they can load, check, tidy data and then perform the basic statistics or generate the graphs common in their respective disciplines. This time also usually provides opportunity to troubleshoot and learn to navigate web resources to find solutions to errors. Extra datasets will be available for students that prefer not to bring their own work or who want extra practice at specific skills. (TBD)
Intermediate R (in development)
Hosted by: Transmitting Science and the Italian National Antarctic Museum, Genoa, Italy
Registration and payment information coming soon
This 5-day course is for ecologists, biologists, and other natural scientists who some experience in R but would like to learn more efficient methods to manage their data, streamline analysis, and create publication quality graphics. Core topics will include version control, file and folder structures, debugging, creating custom functions and packages, and generating reports with R Markdown and OfficeR (TBD).
Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
If interested in these courses or a custom class, send me an email: ashton.drew *at* kdv-decisions.com
Introduction to R and R Studio
A 2-day introduction to working with your data in R. The course is suitable for individuals who have never coded in any language or those wishing to pick up a new programming language. You will learn to read, inspect, manipulate, analyze, visualize, and save your data products. Emphasis is placed on preparing you to become self-sufficient using the learning resources available to help you understand R scripts and continue to build your skills. (TBD)
Intermediate Graphs and Tables
A 2-day of guided practice to build and fine-tune visual presentations of data results suitable for publication. We also cover strategies of data management and writing functions to read, tidy, and plot data where you anticipate a need to repeatedly generate similar models, tables, and graphics. (TBD)
Data Dashboards, Apps, and Auto-Reports
A 3-day intermediate/advanced course for those who are already comfortable in R but would now like to learn to write reactive scripts with R Shiny and other R packages that facilitate data interactions. (TBD)
FEBRUARY 2019
Barcelona, Spain
Hosted by: Transmitting Science
Registration and payment via course website
Interactive Data Analysis and Visualization with R Shiny
This 5-day course is for individuals considering developing Shiny apps to deliver their research. Thus, the goal will be to teach the skills necessary to translate static products (your current analysis in R) to dynamic products delivered via a simple web-based graphic-user interface. After a brief survey of the available basic tools (widgets such as slider bars, check boxes, and pick lists), we will move quickly to learn more advanced interactive features. Activities interspersed throughout the class will provide hands-on practice with sample biological and ecological data. By the end of the course, students will have built a portfolio of example code and will have designed, constructed, and published at least one example Shiny app. (Feb 18-22)
Additional Courses in Prep for 2019
Introduction to R
Hosted by: Transmitting Science, Barcelona, Spain
Registration and payment via course website
This 5-day course is for ecologists, biologists, and other natural scientists who have never used R and, possibly, have never done any programming at all. By the end of the course, the participants should be able to import / export data-bases, manage data sets, carry out basic statistic analyses, draw high quality graphs, and program functions. Students are encouraged to bring a dataset with them along with a “previously completed” statistical analysis or graphic. Ideally something fairly introductory and simple from the student’s own field of practice that you’ve worked with in Excel, SAS, or elsewhere. Students will work with these data on the last day to ensure they can load, check, tidy data and then perform the basic statistics or generate the graphs common in their respective disciplines. This time also usually provides opportunity to troubleshoot and learn to navigate web resources to find solutions to errors. Extra datasets will be available for students that prefer not to bring their own work or who want extra practice at specific skills. (TBD)
Intermediate R (in development)
Hosted by: Transmitting Science and the Italian National Antarctic Museum, Genoa, Italy
Registration and payment information coming soon
This 5-day course is for ecologists, biologists, and other natural scientists who some experience in R but would like to learn more efficient methods to manage their data, streamline analysis, and create publication quality graphics. Core topics will include version control, file and folder structures, debugging, creating custom functions and packages, and generating reports with R Markdown and OfficeR (TBD).