Week 1 Notes - Course Introduction

Published

September 8, 2025

Key Concepts Learned

  • Basic Git and Github actions
  • Quarto setup & my first website rendering

Coding Techniques

  • Learned a few data wrangling functions in R

Questions & Challenges

  • How do I use Git to clone a repository?
  • How do I use quarto to render a website?
  • Which R function should I use to aggregate dataset based on certain columns?

Connections to Policy

  • Census analysis can provide valuable insights into a region’s fundamental characteristics, including its demographic and economic profile.

Reflection

  • Statistics in R is easy and fun!