Course planning and details - 2024-05-06

[lwjohnst86]

• Location: Kaffefair, Strandvejen 19, 9000 Aalborg
• Date: 2024-05-06
• Pre-course assignments dates (~3-5 hrs to complete, suggest they dedicate a full day to it):
  • Start: Apr. 06, 2024
  • Due: May. 01, 2024

NOTE: We have to end before 15:00 on the last day.

Instructors

Instructors/helpers: @lwjohnst86, @AndersAskeland, @signekb, @Isabellvse

Before the course, please review the CONTRIBUTING guide, Code of Conduct, and the Tips for instructors or helpers in the Guides website.

Day	Topic	Instructor
Day 1	Introduction to the course	@lwjohnst86
Day 1	Basic setup and workflow	@lwjohnst86
Day 1	Importing data, fast!	@lwjohnst86
Day 1	Save time, don't repeat yourself: Making functions	@Isabellvse
Day 2	Save time, don't repeat yourself: Using functionals	@signekb
Day 2	Processing and joining datasets for cleaning	@AndersAskeland
Day 3	Quickly re-arranging data with pivots	@AndersAskeland
Day 3	Hands-on exercises
Day 3	Closing remarks	@lwjohnst86

To do before course

Several of the below tasks (for the admin/lead instructor) can be done using the r3admin package.

• Apr. 06, 2024: (Optional) Send an calendar invite to registered participants with link to pre-course tasks and website.
• Apr. 22, 2024: Send a calendar invite to instructors/helpers for course location (with planning issue link), dinner locations, and post-course debrief.
  • Include registered participants with link to pre-course tasks and website.
• ~Apr. 22, 2024: Pre-course instructor meeting:
  • Go briefly over Instructor and Helper with new instructors.
  • Mention about post-course debrief (described in the Guides site).
  • (For intro course) Have all instructors/helpers give their GitHub user names.
• Apr. 28, 2024: Send a reminder to everyone to complete tasks.
• May. 01, 2024: Check that all participants have completed pre-course material.
• May. 03, 2024: Get participants into groups (~3-4 people per group).
• May. 03, 2024: Assign instructors to groups.
• May. 03, 2024: Open up the Google Forms feedback survey

To do during course

• Set up repo to host code-along that instructors will use (course dependent).

To do after course

• Close the Google Forms feedback survey
• Update git tag and release it (r3admin::create_course_tag())
• Update course metadata in r3admin/data/courses.yaml
• Update instructor/helper metadata in r3admin/data/courses.yaml and r3admin/data/people/
• Update Zenodo DOI

Other details

• DDA will reimburse travel expenses here