Summer of Data Science Book Club

Now that summer is in full swing, it's the perfect time to dive into a longer term project!

We'd like to challenge you to participate in the Summer of Data Science Twitter initiative started by Data Science Renee (https://twitter.com/BecomingDataSci). While the SoDS18 is open to all programming languages and endeavors related to becoming a (better) data scientist, we wanted to host a space within our Cville R-Ladies community to ask questions, provide support, and work together on group projects! Of course, there will also be snacks. :)

How do I participate?

We're going to kick off the book club by working through the first section of R for Data Science by Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund (available for FREE at http://r4ds.had.co.nz/explore-intro.html). We'll start with Data Visualization with ggplot2, and we'll cover a new section, or chapter, every two weeks.

In each Meetup, we'll work through the exploratory problems, discuss questions that come up in each section, and apply the concepts to real life examples. You should walk away from this experience with a solid grounding in the basics of R tidyverse principles.

While it is recommended that everyone read the week's section prior to the Meetup, you should go through the book at a pace you are comfortable with. Don't worry about falling behind or missing a section - you can always skip and come back!

Tentative Schedule for July and August (September to come!):

July 2: Data Visualization (http://r4ds.had.co.nz/data-visualisation.html)

July 16: Workflows: Basics (http://r4ds.had.co.nz/workflow-basics.html), Scripts (http://r4ds.had.co.nz/workflow-scripts.html), and Projects (http://r4ds.had.co.nz/workflow-projects.html) (note: these are three small sections)

July 30: Data Transformation Part 1 (http://r4ds.had.co.nz/transform.html)

Aug 13: Data Transformation Part 2 (http://r4ds.had.co.nz/transform.html)

Aug 27: Exploratory Data Analysis (http://r4ds.had.co.nz/exploratory-data-analysis.html)

Sept 10: Tibbles (http://r4ds.had.co.nz/tibbles.html)

If you have any questions, please reach out to samantha@rladies.org.

Follow us on Twitter @RLadiesCville for updates!

Looking forward to seeing everyone!