Week 1 - Welcome to Global Health Data Science
Welcome to STA 198 / GLHLTH 298! 🌄
Tasks
- Complete the readings
- Complete the Getting to Know You Survey (you’ll need a GitHub user name first; see the video on version control and collaboration to walk through this)
Class Slides and Activities
Title |
Slides |
|---|---|
| Welcome to IDS! | |
| Data Visualization Start-Up | |
| First dataviz |
Readings and Videos
| 📄 | Course syllabus | Required |
| 📖 | R4DS: Chp 2, Introduction | Required |
| 📖 | R4DS::Chp 3 - Data visualisation | Required |
| 📖 | IMS: Chp 1, Sec 1.1 and 1.2 | Required |
| 🎥 | Meet the Toolkit: Programming | Required |
| 🎥 | Meet the Toolkit: Version Control and Collaboration | Required |
| 📄 | How to read an R help page (Section A.1.1) | Optional |
| 📄 | rOpenSci’s Reproducibility Guide | Optional |
| 📄 | 1,500 scientists lift the lid on reproducibility | Optional |
| 🖋 | How R changed me as an analyst | Optional |
| 📄 | Make a plot | Optional |
| 📊 | Information is beautiful - COVID-19 data visualisations | Optional |
| 📊 | Wealth shown to scale | Optional |
| 📊 | Explore COVID-19 Symptoms Search Trends | Optional |
Interactive R Tutorials
If you’re struggling with the topics covered this week, we strongly recommend you work through this additional tutorial.
| Data Visualization Basics | Extra practice |
