Workshops
This page will be updated periodically with materials from workshops that were originally held in person. If you can't find a workshop on what you're looking for, you can request one by emailing data@reed.edu. If you're struggling working through anything, you can also stop by the DataLab for drop in help from a student worker.
R
R Workshops
A longer workshop that is a complete crash course in R. Goes from scratch to graphing and data analysis.
Workshops held weekly on Monday at 5:30 in ETC 208. See the schedule for content. Schedule will be updated throughout the semester.
Getting Started
This will help you find the R server or download R.
Loading & Understanding Data
This will help you load files into R and understand basic data structures.
Cleaning & Wrangling Data: Part One
Learn the functions select(), filter(), and mutate() from the {dplyr} package.
Cleaning & Wrangling Data: Part Two
Learn the functions group_by() and summarize() from the {dplyr} package, along with a few other functions like if_else() and case_when(). Then practice putting together all your wrangling knowledge.
Basic Graphing
Learn how to make many basic plots with {ggplot2}
Graph and Table Aesthetics
Learn how to add color, confidence intervals, and signficance to graphs along with arranging plots in a figure. Learn how to make print-ready tables.
Pivoting Tables
Learn how to convert tables between wide and long formats.
Joining Tables
Learn how to combine tables together based on key variables.
GIS
This tutorial goes through file types and how to load different files as layers into QGIS.
more coming soon!