Week 1 Notes - Course Introduction

Published

September 8, 2025

Key Concepts Learned

  • [List main concepts from lecture]
  • Github key concepts: repo, commit, push, and pull
  • [Technical skills covered]
  • Github
  • basic R: install a new package
  • markdowm

Coding Techniques

  • [New R functions or approaches]
  • dplyr: select(), filter(), mutate(), summarize(), group_by()
  • %>% is to connect the lines, pipeline
  • [Quarto features learned] Quarto is the next generation of markdown

Questions & Challenges

  • [What I didn’t fully understand] difference between table and data frame? They are exactly the same thing but in two means
  • [Areas needing more practice] R studio, github repo

Connections to Policy

  • [How this week’s content applies to real policy work]
  • process a large_scale data set to provide some insights for policy decision_maker!
  • build a website to communicate with public, improving political trust and transparency

Reflection

  • [What was most interesting] make my website page
  • [How I’ll apply this knowledge] help me to process data in my planning studio, and use Github page to show my works and communicate with people!