class: center, middle, inverse, title-slide # Lab 00 ## Logistics ### Shawn Santo ### 01-10-20 --- class: center, middle, inverse # Meet your TA --- ## Introduce yourself - Name - Major or intended major - Hobby / something you enjoy doing outside of school and work --- ## Today's agenda 1. What to expect in lab 2. Questions about course policies 3. Application exercise 4. Introduction survey --- ## What to expect in lab - Introduction to the lab assignment (~ 10 minutes) - Work on the lab assignment (generally done in teams) - All assignments will be completed using RStudio and submitted on GitHub (more on this next week) - Today's lab will focus on some logistics to help prepare for the semester --- ## Any questions about course policies? Course website: http://www2.stat.duke.edu/courses/Spring20/sta199.001/ --- ## GitHub - If you do not have a GitHub account, go to [https://github.com/](https://github.com/) and create one. - See [Happy Git with R](https://happygitwithr.com/github-acct.html#username-advice) for tips on selecting a username. --- ## UN Votes Analysis 1. Log-in (create an account if needed) to RStudio Cloud - an email was sent before lab. 2. Under Projects, click the drop-down arrow next to `New Project` and select `New Project from Git Repo`. 3. Paste the link https://github.com/sta199-sp20-001/appex00.git in the dialogue box in RStudio Cloud. 4. In the Files pane in the bottom right corner, spot the file called `unvotes.Rmd`. Open it, and then click on the "Knit" button. 5. Go back to the file and put your name in the author field at the top of the file (in the `yaml` -- we will discuss what this is at a later date). Knit again. 6. Change the country names in parts 1 and 2 to countries that interest you. The spelling and capitalization must match what's in the data, so you can use the Appendix to see the correct spelling and capitalization. Knit again. <br/><br/> You have made your first data visualization! --- ## Discussion Discuss the following with a partner. 1. Consider the plot in Part 1. Describe how the voting behaviors of the four countries have changed over time. 2. Consider the plot in Part 2. - On which issues have the two countries voted most similarly in recent years? - On which issues have they voted most differently in recent years? - Has this changed over time? --- ## Getting to know you survey 1. Navigate to http://bit.ly/sta199-sp20-survey 3. Complete the entire survey. Brief answers are fine. <br><br> Some of the information from this survey will be used to help with the formation of teams. --- ## Reminders - Let your TA know if you cannot access RStudio Cloud - Verify you can access Piazza (link through Sakai) - Before next lecture complete the assigned reading - The murky tale of Flint's deceptive water data