AE 02: Multivariable relationships

Class announcements

• Office hours start Monday
• Labs start Monday

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Introductions

Meet your classmates! (~ 7 minutes)

• Go to a breakout room
• Introduce yourself!
  • Name
  • Year
  • What is something you’re looking forward to this semester (either in this class or in general)?

Check in

Introductions

Meet your classmates! (~ 7 minutes)

• Go to a breakout room
• Introduce yourself!
  • Name
  • Year
  • What is something you’re looking forward to this semester (either in this class or in general)?

Course overview

Click here for slides.

• Watch the videos Welcome to Regression Analysis and Tour of course website + Sakai for a more detailed overview.

Get GitHub username (~ 5 - 7 minutse)

• Go to https://github.com/, and create an account (unless you already have one).

• After you create your account, go to https://forms.gle/rmJGcHio4UeiwZXh8 and enter your NetID and GitHub username.

Some tips from Happy Git and GitHub for the useR to help you create a professional GitHub username.

• Incorporate your actual name.
• Reuse your username from other contexts if you can, e.g. Twitter or Slack.
• Pick a username you will be comfortable revealing to your future boss.
• Be as unique as possible in as few characters as possible. Shorter is better than longer.
• Make it timeless.
• Avoid words with special meaning in programming (e.g. NA).

RStudio tour

Tour of R and RStudio

Let’s take a tour of R and RStudio. I’ll do a short demo to help you navigate RStudio.

You can access RStudio by going to https://vm-manage.oit.duke.edu/containers and logging into the Docker container titled “STA 210 - Regression Analysis”.

Concepts introduced

• Console
• Using R as a calculator
• RStudio environment
• Brief intro to R Markdown
• R Markdown vs. the console