Course Material

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Day One - Wednesday 13 Feb:

• Introduction

  • slides

• Learning to Use the Shell

  • slides
  • data-shell.zip
  • Lachlan's terminal commands
    • this is what we entered in to our terminal today
  • (Boring) review of terminal commands in a silent video
    • part one
    • part two
    • beware - these are from an older version of the course, so there are differences
• Git on your machine
  • slides
  • Lachlan's terminal commands
    • this is what we entered in to our terminal today

Day Two - Thursday 14 Feb:

• Using Git to collaborate
  • slides: to be uploaded
• Introduction to R

Day Three - Friday 15 Feb:

• Intro to dplyr and tidyr
• Intro to ggplot
• OLS regressions in R
• Extra material:
  • IV regression
  • Fixed Effects
  • RDD estimation
  • Saving and Loading Files

Day Four - Saturday 16 Feb:

• Starting Point
  • Rscripts and folder structure for MRW replication
• Where we ended the day
  • Adds a Snakefile to above to generate all tables and graphs
  • In class, Lachlan broke the rule to create a table, this fixes it
• Extended version
  • Split Snakefiles into multiple subworkflows
  • Packrat for version management
  • Builds pdf of a paper and slides
• Notes (A Work in Progress tutorial)