This semester I had the pleasure (+ challenge) of teaching Regression Analysis. Much of the content was originally designed by the inimitable @MT_statistics, I’m handing it back w/ 3 updates:
The curriculum now features a roughly equal dose of inferential and predictive models, using tidyverse and tidymodels for the #rstats code + all course content (website, slides, documents) created w/ Quarto. Source code for everything can be found at github.com/sta210-s22/web….
And importantly, students learned to use @quarto_pub as well! Roughly 75% (of 90 students) came in with one semester of R Markdown experience and the remaining with no R/R Markdown experience, and getting started with Quarto went without a hitch!
Interested in learning more about the curriculum & pedagogy for the course? Join @MT_statistics and me
And finally, it’s so nice to be in a department with an open sharing culture for course materials, along with the source code for everything! A few examples 👇:
I am *overjoyed* to announce that our newest @OpenIntroOrg book "Introduction to Modern Statistics" (co-authored with the fantastic @jo_hardin47) is out!
The book is also available in PDF (for free) and in paperback (for $20). You can find out more about these formats and the supplementary materials that come with the book at openintro.org/book/ims.
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Some highlights of the book that are near and dear to our hearts:
💻 Focus on computational methods for statistical inference
🔗 Clear linking of computational and mathematical models
📈 Early introduction to multivariable modeling
✅ Emphasis on multivariable thinking
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I'm deeply disappointed in @DataCamp leadership, and cannot, in good conscience, recommend it to my students. Questionable ethics at tech companies are sadly common, but it hits especially close to home when it happens at an education company that I worked with & promoted. (1/5)
This means: 1. My @Coursera course no longer offers option for #rstats labs via @DataCamp.This years-long collaboration represents hard work by @DukeLearning+DataCamp staff to provide browser-based R access for thousands of learners,fruits of this effort will now go unused(2/5)
2. I'm working w/ @jo_hardin47+@BaumerBen+Andrew Bray to make our course content available elsewhere.Meanwhile, don’t take these courses on DataCamp. As @noamross put it so well “We can't change behavior without incentives, and for companies those incentives are financial."(3/5)