My next project was to read through the book R for Data Science by Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund. I’m hoping to update the R-programming course that accompanies our large Public Health Biostatistics course, so I was hoping this book would give me some ideas for restructuring the order of topics in the course.
Time these 3 weeks: 724 minutes (~ 12 hours)
Total time (across 7 weeks): 2,206 minutes (~ 36.75 hours, ~ 5.25 hours/week)
It ended up taking me about 3 weeks of project time to read the book (4 weeks of calendar time – there was a week with some major childcare issues that I am choosing to skip over).
I spent about 12 hours on this project across these three weeks, with the time breakdown shown below. (As always, this time doesn’t include any blogging time about the project.)
| Mon 7.8 | Tue 7.9 | Wed 7.10 | Thurs 7.11 | Fri 7.12 | Sat 7.13 | Sun 7.14 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 | 15 | 106 | 0 | 40 | 73 |
| Mon 7.22 | Tue 7.23 | Wed 7.24 | Thurs 7.25 | Fri 7.26 | Sat 7.27 | Sun 7.28 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 55 | 165 | 90 | 0 |
| Mon 7.29 | Tue 7.30 | Wed 7.31 | Thurs 8.1 | Fri 8.2 | Sat 8.3 | Sun 8.4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 65 | 55 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
No Github repos to share for this project!
I’m really glad I read this book! I probably should have read it a long time ago. Although I’ve been using pieces of the tidyverse for awhile, I definitely learned some new things that will make my coding better in the future. I also ended up with a long list of additional things to read (when I get the time!) And, most importantly, I’ve been able to sketch out a plan to re-work that programming course I’m been wanting to update.