October meeting: Setting up your own Shiny server & Managing courses with GitHub

As usual, the meeting will be open for all to attend, and newcomers / beginners are very welcome! After the talks we’ll be testing out a new pub (details below), so do come along!

Our first speaker is Colin Rundel, Lecturer in Mathematical Sciences within the School of Mathematics (UoE), and Assistant Professor of the Practice in Statistical Science at Duke University. Colin will be focusing on how to use GitHub for teaching:

# ghclass: an R package for managing classes with GitHub

In this talk I will present the details of the ghclass package which has been developed as a tool for managing statistical and data science courses with a computation component. The package is designed to automate the process of distributing and collecting assignments via git repositories hosted on GitHub. As part of this talk I will discuss how these tools are being used to teach a large MSc Statistical Computing course here at the University of Edinburgh. I will provide a live demo of the package’s core functionality as well as demonstrate some of the newer features which focus on automated feedback and assessment.