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Appendix A — Networking and social activities

As you get more experienced in coding, the role of your network becomes increasingly important both for continued learning, but also for collaboration with others skilled in R. So, part of the course is also about getting to know others!

So while we have formal social activities, try to seek out someone you haven’t met yet or who you haven’t chatted with as much during the lunch breaks.

Day 1

After lunch, get in your group for the day and walk outside while discussing these topics:

• Share a positive or exciting experience you had with cleaning, processing, and preparing data for later analysis. It can be recent or in the past, but as long as it was a memorable and positive. What made it positive? Do you try to repeat that experience, or at least the feeling of it?
• Share a challenging experience or barriers that you encounter while cleaning, processing, and preparing data. Why was it challenging or had barriers and how could you limit those for for next time?

Day 2

After lunch, get in your group for the day and walk outside while discussing this topic:

• Think about the functions and functionals sessions. Discuss with your group some ideas on how you can implement making functions and using functionals in your work. What are some things you do repetitively (in code or general work) that you think would be great to have simplified or automated.