TODO items from class debriefs

[briatte]

• All weeks
  • [ ] Unify slides ('practice session' slides are different in Weeks 1-10 and in Weeks 11-12)
  • [ ] Clean up the readings
    • [ ] Focus on as a few core handbooks as possible
    • [ ] Cite extra references in the slides/emails
  • [ ] Sync the 'readings' slides with the lists of readings + videos sent by email
  • [ ] Sync with 'official' syllabus
• Week 3
  • [x] Fix #10
  • [ ] Fix #11
  • [ ] Lose countrycode dependency?
• Week 4
  • [ ] Fix #11 (again?!)
  • [ ] Fix #9
• Week 5
• Week 6
  • [ ] Refer students to readings, and to this for distributions: https://www.statology.org/tutorials/
  • [ ] Link from example NYT article with confidence intervals
• Week 7
  • [ ] Slides required!!!
  • [ ] Debrief email required!!!
  • [ ] Refer students to this tutorial as wrap-up on descriptive stats, correlation and SEs
• Week 8
  • [ ] Update Bartels data using recent BLS data?
  • [ ] Try to code an EU 2012 membership dummy and add it to Exercise 8?
    • [ ] use this: https://jfjelstul.github.io/eums/index.html
    • [ ] Current europe dummy, minus Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo
  • [ ] … or try a Eurozone membership dummy?
    • [ ] use this: https://jfjelstul.github.io/eums/index.html
  • [ ] Add a mention of Schrodt 2010 in the slides?
  • [ ] Cite other extra references, e.g. book on interactions, Breiman's two cultures?
  • [ ] Mention the many model tutorials there: https://ourcodingclub.github.io/tutorials.html
  • [ ] Mention the many stat/ML tutorials there: https://www.statology.org/machine-learning-tutorials/
• Week 9 (nonlinearity/logit)
  • [ ] Slides required!!! (use those from this year's Session 10)
  • [ ] Debrief email required!!!
  • [ ] Show Jackman graphs of US votes?
• Week 10 (surveys, ex-Week 6)
  • [ ] Debrief email required!!!
  • [ ] Slides required!!! (cite Gelman 2006)
  • [ ] Cover survey data with dummies -- use Chris Hanretty example on same-sex vote?
  • [ ] Code Arab Barometer example with survey weights?
  • [ ] Code ESS example with weights?
    • [ ] In that case, make the exercise use them too?
  • [ ] survey exercise using LFS data (relevant to student internships)
• Week 11
  • [ ] Debrief email required!!!
• Week 12
  • [ ] Document population density fallacies: problem: US map, solution: cartograms (using Plotly?)
    • [ ] better maps, esp. US → incl. electoral choropleth from IDA 2013?
    • [ ] see comment below on Week 12
  • [ ] bonus: SQL + maps/geolocation + R Markdown
    • [ ] ~~replace final feedback exercise with this?~~ make it a bonus demo
    • [ ] nuclear plants, with SQL: GeoNuclearData-master.zip
    • [ ] make it a knittable document: see https://rstudio4edu.github.io/rstudio4edu-book/rmd-templates.html
  • [ ] bonus: Web scraping
    • [ ] En Marche! 2023 example?
    • [ ] Examples from IDA 2013? See #28
    • [ ] RSelenium example?
  • [x] Mention the many spatial data tutorials there: https://ourcodingclub.github.io/tutorials.html
  • [x] Debrief email required!!!
    • [x] include link to Spotify playlist
    • [x] include link on APC effects: "America’s Liberal Social Climate and Trends: Change in 283 General Social Survey Variables between and within US Birth Cohorts, 1972–2018" (Hout, POQ, 2021)
    • [x] include link to explanation video on life expectancy (used 4 times as an example variable)
    • [x] include link to https://in-pursuit-of-development.simplecast.com/episodes/indermit-gill
    • [x] include link to Silge and Robinson vidcasts
      • [x] Silge, Topic modeling with R and tidy data principles
    • ~~include link to Savage on Bourdieu~~
    • [x] how to stay updated on new R stuff
      • [x] useR, rstudio::conf, now posit::conf
      • [x] R Weekly, R Views
      • [x] CRAN Task Views
      • [x] Twitter
    • [x] how to learn moar
      • [x] courses, e.g. SCISS, Coursera, DataCamp
      • [x] read through other courses → link to wiki page
      • [x] find R code on GitHub
      • [x] StackOverflow, CrossValidated

Ideas for more graded exercises

See #27

More (bonus) examples

See #28

Teaching resources

https://education.rstudio.com/teach/

[briatte]

For maps on Week 12, show Scandinavia:

sc <- filter(geo, NAME_EN %in% c("Denmark", "Finland", "Norway", "Sweden"))
(bb <- sf::st_bbox(sc))
ggplot(sc) +
  geom_sf(aes(fill = NAME_EN)) +
  coord_sf(ylim = c(54, 71), # y = latitude = horizontal
           xlim = c(4, 33))  # x = longitude = vertical

… or even plot EU with 2004 accession countries?