Thanks, Steve — the idea was taken more or less wholesale from a class that Joe Dumit and Duncan Temple Lang ran last summer here at Davis! I only added my usual theatrics.
In this case, I had them write them out on notecards and then submit them, and then I did data entry into Excel in front of them (to good effect - people were amused by the whole thing). I attach the spreadsheet. There were about 40 notecards but it only took about 10 to get the desired effect… For the full workshop, we might enter all this data + more and then show people how to use the tricks from the Data Carpentry spreadsheet lessons ([0] designed by Christie Bahlai, Tracy Teal, Deb Paul, and Cam Macdonell) to Do Better, followed by an intro to Open Refine and finally a bit of RStudio and R. best, —titus [0] http://www.datacarpentry.org/lessons/#ecology-workshop
2016-STAR-example.xlsx
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2016-STAR-example.pdf
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> On May 9, 2016, at 10:00 AM, Steven Haddock <[email protected]> wrote: > > HI Titus. > > The thing about dates and locations is a clever demo (I thought you were > going to predict their passwords). > > How did you follow up on that? Did you read off of the cards and show how > many different ways the dates and locations were formatted? > > -Steve > > >> On May 9, 2016, at 09:18 , C. Titus Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I made the following presentation to some pre-DVM (Veterinary Medicine) >> students, in order to motivate their attendance for a half-day workshop >> later in the summer. I am sure you will all recognize many of the themes :). >> >> It seemed to go over well; please make use of the slides however you wish >> (they are under CC0). I’d love comments but bear in mind this falls under >> Dr. Wilson’s Rules - if you think I should add something, you have to tell >> me what to take out in return! >> >> best, >> �
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