cm003 2015-09-13 Tuesday overview

• Please take this survey (yes of course it’s a Shiny app!):
  • http://shiny.stat.ubc.ca/STAT545/stat545-basic-info/
  • this is how we get your GitHub username, match you against the course list, and give you a private course repository within the STAT 545 Organization
  • username and password for survey given in class
• Quick live look at “who’s in here?” (see below)
• Revisit toy line script from last class, which covered:
  • R basics, workspace and working directory, RStudio projects
  • Do “Compile Notebook” on it!
• Work on “Connect Git, GitHub, RStudio” and “Early GitHub Usage” from http://happygitwithr.com
  • If you see slides, they’ll be something like these: https://speakerdeck.com/jennybc/happy-git-and-github-for-the-user
  • Goal: New project, GitHub first
• What’s coming?
  • DATA!!
  • Exploring the Gapminder data
  • data.frame
  • ggplot2
• First homework will be due midnight Tuesday September 20, but preferably before class. Go to office hours if struggling! See the 2015 version here (some changes still coming).

Good question: who’s in this class?

I did some live analysis of the course list. Here’s one cross-tabulation.