Week 1 Notes - Course Introduction

Key Concepts Learned

• GitHub Fundamentals
  • Git
    • Version control system that tracks changes in files
  • GitHub
    • Cloud hosting for Git repositories
  • Key GitHub Concepts
    1. Repository(repo)
    2. Commit
    3. Push
    4. Pull
• Quarto Introduction
  • Quarto
    • Publishing system that combines Code (R, Python, etc.), Text (explanations, analysis), Output (plots, tables, results)
• Markdown Basics
  • Text Formatting
  • Headers
  • Lists
  • Links and Images
• R and dplyr Review
  • Tibbles vs. Data Frames
    • “tibbles” - enhanced data frames(Shows first 10 rows by default, Displays column names)
  • Essential dplyr functions
    • select()- choose columns
    • filter()- choose columns
    • mutate()- choose columns
    • summarize- choose columns
    • group-by- choose columns

Coding Techniques

• [New R functions or approaches]
• [Quarto features learned]

Questions & Challenges

• What I didn’t fully understand
  • Clone VS Fork
• Areas needing more practice
  • Commmit

Connections to Policy

• [How this week’s content applies to real policy work]

Reflection

• [What was most interesting]
• [How I’ll apply this knowledge]