Week 1 Notes - Course Introduction

Key Concepts Learned

• The use of Github and Github Desktop Key concept: Repository (repo), Commit, Push (Send changes to the Cloud), Pull (Download changes from the Cloud)
• Github Workflow Edit locally - Commit - Push
• Assignment via Github Classroom
• Quarto for publishing (Code, Text, Output)
• R for Policy Analysis, especially using tidyverse
• Tibbles are better than data frames

Coding Techniques

• Basics for Markdown
• dplyr: select(), dilter(), mutate (), summarize(), group_by()
• Pipeline
• means “or”, & means “and”

Questions & Challenges

• The application of pipelin, how to use ?
• Be familiar with Github workflow

Connections to Policy

• Understanding the basic system and workflow for data-driven public policy analytics

Reflection

• Trying to be familiar with Coding with R (tidyverse)
• Exciting for Lab1 !