At the RSS conference last week, I had the pleasure of speaking alongside Andy Field, Rhys C Jones, and Margaret MacDougall about the process of book writing and publishing!
You can find my slides online here: https://nrennie.rbind.io/talks/rss-conference-book-publishing/
I had a fabulous time at the RSS conference in Edinburgh this week with lots of excellent talks and time spent catching up with people I don't get to see often enough!
See you next year in Bournemouth?
At RSS conference next week, I'll be talking in the 'Book Publication as a Scholarly Activity for Statisticians' session @ 11.30 on Thurs 4 Sept - which I'm really looking forward to!
Some of the things I'll be talking about include:
📖 Writing about #RStats with #QuartoPub
✍️ Working with Lara at CRC Press
📊 How it all started with some #TidyTuesday charts!
(Very subtle announcement that there's a #DataViz book from me coming soon!)
Thanks to those who came along to today's RSS Manchester session about teaching data wrangling with {messy}. There were so many useful questions at the end - my to-do list just got longer!
Slides: https://nrennie.rbind.io/talks/rss-manchester-messy/
I'm really looking forward to delivering this talk about creating data for teaching and testing using the {messy} package in July for the RSS Manchester Local Group!
📅 Thursday 10 July 2025
⌚ 1.00PM - 2.00PM BST
📌 Online (everyone welcome!)
🚨 Exciting news! 🚨
We've just launched the @RoSE_Network_ blog!
If you're interested in sparking conversations and sharing insights about statistics education, then have a read (and think about contributing 👀)
Read our first post which introduces the blog: https://www.rose-network.org/blog/welcome-to-the-rose-blog
🎉 The {messy} package is now available on CRAN! 🎉
Read the introductory blog post here: https://nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introducing-messy-r-package/
Save the date for UKCOTS 2025!
📅 24th-25th June 2025
📌 University of Glasgow, UK
❔ A conference for anyone with an interest in the teaching of statistics in higher education in whatever department or discipline
Link: https://www.ukcots.org/
If you're teaching R, or statistics, and you want your students to get more practice of data wrangling with "messy" data, you can use the {messy} package to turn the clean data you currently use for examples into more realistic looking data!
GitHub: https://github.com/nrennie/messy
And just to show off (and get feedback), the latest thing I wrote is a game to let students play with causality and experiments... https://martinmodrak.github.io/causal-game/ (unlike my students, you shouldn't send the results for the homework assignment to me, though :D )
Spotlighting an event worth checking out: a workshop on teaching study design and analysis in the life sciences!
❓ 1-day in-person workshop to foster communication among disciplines and improve teaching in study design and analysis, with an eye to support science reform by improving research transparency and reproducibility
📅 9th January 2025
📍 University of Edinburgh, UK
💰 Cost: Free
Registration link: https://forms.office.com/e/2vQ9UFLQXt
More information and schedule: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GBkEKjhDdeqqmpZZOLGxcimGlKmNKRr7gl1Nd0Ym8HU/edit?usp=sharing
📢 Do you teach programming? Then the (hybrid) Winter School on Teaching Programming across Disciplines might be of interest!
❓ What is it: one-day workshop designed for anyone who teaches programming (in any language) to an audience that includes non-computer scientists
📍 Where: University of Edinburgh, Usher Building (BioQuarter) and online
📅 When: Wednesday 8th January, 9am-5pm GMT
📋 More info: https://pairprogramming.ed.ac.uk/winter-school-25/
👍 Registration: https://forms.office.com/e/d3WABzje3n
I had a great time teaching a "Writing Better R Code" workshop for some of our Faculty of Health and Medicine postgraduates today!
➡️ AM: Workflows, linting, code structure, writing a reprex, and managing dependencies
🤝 PM: Introduction to collaborating on R code using Git and GitHub
It is recommendation letter writing season. Resharing my blog post:
Tips on Recommendation Letters for Students and Instructors
https://www.datapedagogy.com/posts/2023-07-19-tips-rec-letters/tips-rec-letters
🚨New Teaching Programming Journal Club!🚨
Interested in topics related to teaching coding to students without a strong programming background?
Join the first session:
📅 16 October 2024
⏰ 08:00 PT/11:00 EST/ 16:00 BST
📌 Zoom
More information: https://www.rose-network.org/events/teaching-programming-journal-club
Open Case Studies https://www.opencasestudies.org/
"demonstrates illustrative data analyses that can be used in the classroom to teach students how to effectively derive knowledge from data"
Article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26939169.2024.2394541
#MathEd #StatsEd #EdDev #Teaching #DataScience
It's the last day of RSS Conference today! I'll be speaking in the "Schools, outreach and the digital world: how can we deliver statistical and data literacy for all?" session at 3.20pm in Oxford Hall!
Come along to hear from this year's William Guy lecturers alongside other speakers about some of the outreach work we've done with schools!
If you're at RSS Conference today, come along to the Lancaster room for 11.30 session to hear me chatting about some of the wonderful things you can use webR for when teaching R! (Plus other talks about teaching R in an accessible way!)
📢The 2024-2025 William Guy Lectureship videos are now available! 📢
If you'd like a version of the talk aimed at 11-16 year olds delivered for your school (online or locally in person), please do get in touch!
