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The dessert-first approach to teaching data science | Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel | Data Science Hangout

ADD THE DATA SCIENCE HANGOUT TO YOUR CALENDAR HERE: https://pos.it/dsh - All are welcome! We'd love to see you! We were recently joined by Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, Professor of the Practice at Duke University and Senior Developer Advocate at Posit PBC, to chat about her cake-first teaching philosophy, strategies for communicating technical results to non-technical stakeholders, and career advice on learning new tools later in life, among other things. In this Hangout, we explore Mine's unique approach to explaining difficult topics to students. She describes her method as "let them eat cake first," where she shows learners the final, compelling result (like a visualization) before teaching them the "ingredients" or technical steps required to get there. By establishing the motivation and the destination first, she finds students are more willing to invest the effort into learning the necessary coding and data cleaning logic. Resources mentioned in the video and zoom chat: Mine's Coursera 4-course series: Data Science with R Specialization → https://www.coursera.org/specializations/data-science-r TidyTuesday (Weekly Data Project) → https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday, The Test Set Podcast → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-test-set-by-posit/id1823736938 If you didn’t join live, one great discussion you missed from the chat was about the transition from Excel to coding languages like R and Python. Attendees agreed that Excel often acts as a "gateway drug" to data science, shared war stories about managing massive VLOOKUPs (laugh/cry emojis for everyone), and debated the undeniable and lingering utility of spreadsheets for communicating with business stakeholders. Spreadsheets will never go away and many of us are totally ok with that because we still use them every day! Let us know below if you’d like to hear more about this topic ► Subscribe to Our Channel Here: https://bit.ly/2TzgcOu Follow Us Here: Website: https://www.posit.co Hangout: https://pos.it/dsh The Lab: https://pos.it/dslab LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/posit-software Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/posit.co Thanks for hanging out with us! Timestamps 00:00 Introduction 04:42 "Why R initially and why still R?" 10:30 "How do you balance it all?" 15:28 "How do you stay up to date on newer techniques?" 20:13 "What is your approach for explaining difficult topics to students?" 25:58 "How do you identify appropriate datasets for beginners?" 32:21 "How frustrating is it when you see statistics being used in a misleading way?" 38:26 "How to communicate with people from different fields?" 44:23 Career advice 48:28 "Have you ever convinced an organization to abandon Excel?" 49:25 "How is statistics viewed these days in the context of things like AI and ML?" 52:38 "Was there a tipping point where you felt experienced enough to give keynotes?"

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Quarto Dashboards: from zero to publish in one hour

From R/Medicine 2025 You already analyze and summarize your data with R and Quarto. What’s next? You can share your insights or allow others to make their own conclusions in eye-catching dashboards and straight-forward to author, design, and deploy Quarto Dashboards. With Quarto Dashboards, you can create elegant and production-ready dashboards using a variety of components, including static graphics, interactive widgets, tabular data, value boxes, text annotations, and more. Additionally, with intelligent resizing of components, your Quarto Dashboards look great on devices of all sizes. And importantly, you can author Quarto Dashboards without leaving the comfort of your “home” – in plain text markdown with any text editor. In this one-hour demo we will build and publish a Quarto Dashboard – you can code-along or sit back and enjoy the show! Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, Professor of the Practice at Duke University and Developer Educator at Posit Mine’s work focuses on innovation in statistics and data science pedagogy, with an emphasis on computing, reproducible research, student-centered learning, and open-source education as well as pedagogical approaches for enhancing retention of women and under-represented minorities in STEM. Mine works on the OpenIntro project, whose mission is to make educational products that are free, transparent, and lower barriers to education. As part of this project she co-authored four open-source introductory statistics textbooks – latest is the 2nd edition of Introduction to Modern Statistics. She is also a co-author on R for Data Science, the creator and maintainer of Data Science in a Box, and she teaches popular data analysis and data science with R courses on Coursera. Mine is a Fellow of the ASA and Elected Member of the ISI as well as a Waller and Hogg award winner for teaching excellence. In 2024, she was elected as Vice President of the International Association for Statistical Education (IASE). Resources R/Medicine: https://rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_website/ R Consortium: https://www.r-consortium.org/

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Quarto Dashboards 3: Theming and Styling | Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel | Posit

Theming and styling Quarto dashboards built with R and/or Python. Before watching this video, you might want to watch Parts 1 & 2. This video takes you through 0:00 - Theming (including Bootswatch themes, light/dark mode, customizing themes with SCSS) 3:55 - Styling 4:55 - Live coding demo Slides can be found at https://mine.quarto.pub/quarto-dashboards/3-theming-styling and the starter documents for the accompanying exercises at https://github.com/mine-cetinkaya-rundel/olympicdash. Materials for all parts of the videos can be accessed at https://mine.quarto.pub/quarto-dashboards. You already analyze and summarize your data in computational notebooks with R and/or Python. What’s next? You can share your insights or allow others to make their own conclusions in eye-catching dashboards and straight-forward to author, design, and deploy Quarto Dashboards, regardless of the language of your data processing, visualization, analysis, etc. With Quarto Dashboards, you can create elegant and production-ready dashboards using a variety of components, including static graphics (ggplot2, Matplotlib, Seaborn, etc.), interactive widgets (Plotly, Leaflet, Jupyter Widgets, htmlwidgets, etc.), tabular data, value boxes, text annotations, and more. Additionally, with intelligent resizing of components, your Quarto Dashboards look great on devices of all sizes. And importantly, you can author Quarto Dashboards without leaving the comfort of your “home” – in plain text markdown with any text editor (VS Code, RStudio, Neovim, etc.) or any notebook editor (JupyterLab, etc.). This workshop will walk you through building an increasingly complex dashboard using various layout options and deploy them as static web pages (with no special server required) as well as with a Shiny Server on the backend for enhanced interactivity. This course is for you if you: * do data analysis in computational notebooks * share your results with your audience in static or interactive dashboards * want to improve the design, user interface, and experience of your dashboards

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Quarto Dashboards 1: Hello, Dashboards! | Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel | Posit

You already analyze and summarize your data in computational notebooks with R and/or Python. What’s next? You can share your insights or allow others to make their own conclusions in eye-catching dashboards and straight-forward to author, design, and deploy Quarto Dashboards, regardless of the language of your data processing, visualization, analysis, etc. With Quarto Dashboards, you can create elegant and production-ready dashboards using a variety of components, including static graphics (ggplot2, Matplotlib, Seaborn, etc.), interactive widgets (Plotly, Leaflet, Jupyter Widgets, htmlwidgets, etc.), tabular data, value boxes, text annotations, and more. Additionally, with intelligent resizing of components, your Quarto Dashboards look great on devices of all sizes. And importantly, you can author Quarto Dashboards without leaving the comfort of your “home” – in plain text markdown with any text editor (VS Code, RStudio, Neovim, etc.) or any notebook editor (JupyterLab, etc.). This video takes you through 0:00 - Overview of building dashboards with Quarto 0:15 - Dashboard basics 7:40 - First dashboard in R 10:30 - First dashboard in Python 11:43 - Live coding demo Slides can be found at https://mine.quarto.pub/quarto-dashboards/1-hello-dashboards/#/title-slide and the starter documents for the accompanying exercises at https://github.com/mine-cetinkaya-rundel/olympicdash. Materials for all parts of the videos can be accessed at https://mine.quarto.pub/quarto-dashboards

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posit::conf(2023) Workshop: Teaching Data Science Masterclass

Register now: http://pos.it/conf Instructor: Dr. Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel Workshop Duration: 1-Day Workshop This course is for you if you: • you want to learn / discuss curriculum, pedagogy, and computing infrastructure design for teaching data science with R and RStudio using the tidyverse and Quarto • you are interested in setting up your class in Posit Cloud • you want to integrate version control with git into your teaching and learn about tools and best practices for running your course on GitHub This masterclass is aimed primarily at participants teaching data science in an academic setting in semester-long courses, however much of the information and tooling we introduce is applicable for shorter teaching experiences like workshops and bootcamps as well. Basic knowledge of R is assumed and familiarity with the tidyverse and Git is preferred. There has been significant innovation in introductory statistics and data science courses to equip students with the statistical, computing, and communication skills needed for modern data analysis. Success in data science and statistics is dependent on the development of both analytical and computational skills, and the demand for educators who are proficient at teaching both these skills is growing. The goal of this masterclass is to equip educators with concrete information on content, workflows, and infrastructure for painlessly introducing modern computation with R and RStudio within a data science curriculum. In a nutshell, the day you’ll spend in this workshop will save you endless hours of solo work designing and setting up your course. Topics will cover teaching the tidyverse in 2023, highlighting updates to R for Data Science (2nd ed) and Data Science in a Box as well as present tooling options and workflows for reproducible authoring, computing infrastructure, version control, and collaboration. The workshop will be comprised of four modules: • Teaching data science with the tidyverse and Quarto • Teaching data science with Git and GitHub • Organizing, publishing, and sharing of course materials • Computing infrastructure for teaching data science Throughout each module we’ll shift between the student perspective and the instructor perspective. The activities and demos will be hands-on; attendees will also have the opportunity to exchange ideas and ask questions throughout the session. In addition to gaining technical knowledge, participants will engage in discussion around the decisions that go into developing a data science curriculum and choosing workflows and infrastructure that best support the curriculum and allow for scalability. We will also discuss best practices for configuring and deploying classroom infrastructures to support these tools

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BioC 2022 - Hello, Quarto!

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, PhD., Professor of the Practice at Duke University, Data Scientist and Professional Educator at RStudio, Inc., gives her keynote presentation at the Bioconductor Conference 2022. Dr. Cetinkaya presents Quarto, an open-source scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc. Dr. Mine began her presentation by introducing Quarto and her personal experience using and teaching it to others. She then continued by giving an overview of the R Markdown ecosystem which includes packages like xaringa, Distill, Blogdown, Rmarkdown, and more. She explained the use of Quarto with these packages along with some other Quarto highlights. Afterward, Dr. Mine gave her first demo of Quarto which included setting up and sharing some handy features. Dr. Mine also gives another demonstration on publishing with Quarto and an overview of the features of collaboration. Dr. Mine then gives a second demonstration of collaborating and teaching with Quarto. To wrap up the presentation, Dr. Mine shared about reimagining open source and the work done by Openscapes and their mission for open practices accelerating data-driven solutions, and increasing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in science. The presentation ended with a questions and answers session from the audience. Main Sections 0:00 Introduction 4:29 Quarto! 6:12 Share 10:57 The R Markdown ecosystem 11:59 Quarto highlights 13:40 Demo of Quarto 21:40 Demo Quarto Publishing 22:58 Quarto rundown 25:23 Collaborate 28:43 Demo 2 34:07 Teaching with Quarto 40:39 Reimagine 44:03 Q&A and Resources More Resources Bioconductor Conference Site: https://bioc2022.bioconductor.org/ BioC2022 Github: https://github.com/Bioconductor/BioC2022 Main Site: https://www.r-consortium.org/ News: https://www.r-consortium.org/news Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rconsortium LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/r-consortium

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Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel | Teaching R online with RStudio Cloud | RStudio (2020)

RStudio Cloud is a lightweight and easy to set up / use solution to teaching R online, in the browser. In this webinar we will walk you through the steps of setting up your course on RStudio Cloud, highlighting the various functionalities for teachers and students. We will also discuss best practices and provide an opportunity for the audience to experience the setup first hand. Additionally, we highlight a suite of ready to use resources for teaching an introduction to data science and statistical thinking course using R. Webinar materials: https://rstudio.com/resources/webinars/teaching-r-online-with-rstudio-cloud/ About Mine: Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel is Professional Educator and Data Scientist at RStudio as well as Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematics at University of Edinburgh (on leave from Department of Statistical Science at Duke University). Mine’s work focuses on innovation in statistics and data science pedagogy, with an emphasis on computing, reproducible research, student-centered learning, and open-source education as well as pedagogical approaches for enhancing retention of women and under-represented minorities in STEM. Mine works on integrating computation into the undergraduate statistics curriculum, using reproducible research methodologies and analysis of real and complex datasets. She also organizes ASA DataFest and works on the OpenIntro project. She is also the creator and maintainer of datasciencebox.org and she teaches the popular Statistics with R MOOC on Coursera

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Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel | Feedback at scale | RStudio

As enrollments in statistics and data science courses grow and as these courses become more computational, educators are faced with an interesting challenge -- providing timely and meaningful feedback, particularly with online delivery of courses. The simplest solution is using assignments that are easier to auto-grade, e.g. multiple-choice questions, simplistic coding exercises, but it is impossible to assess mastery of the entire data science cycle using only these types of exercises. In this talk I will discuss writing effective learnr exercises, providing useful and motivating feedback with gradethis, distributing them at scale online and as an R package, and collecting student data for formative assessment with learnrhash. About Mine: Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel is Professional Educator and Data Scientist at RStudio as well as Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematics at University of Edinburgh (on leave from Department of Statistical Science at Duke University). Mine’s work focuses on innovation in statistics and data science pedagogy, with an emphasis on computing, reproducible research, student-centered learning, and open-source education as well as pedagogical approaches for enhancing retention of women and under-represented minorities in STEM. Mine works on integrating computation into the undergraduate statistics curriculum, using reproducible research methodologies and analysis of real and complex datasets. She also organizes ASA DataFest and works on the OpenIntro project. She is also the creator and maintainer of datasciencebox.org and she teaches the popular Statistics with R MOOC on Coursera

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Therese Anders | Peer review in data science courses | RStudio (2020)

Peer review enables instructors of large data science classes to provide substantive feedback to students beyond what is feasible with standard code review via automated grading and continuous integration. It facilitates peer learning, which is shown in literature to have positive learning outcomes, and can reduce the burden of grading by course staff. The ghclass package provides a suite of functions to manage courses via GitHub repositories. The package has recently been supplemented with the functionality to implement peer review. Developed during my 2019 summer internship with RStudio in collaboration with my mentor Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, the peer review functions in ghclass interface with the GitHub API to create review repositories, move files between authors and reviewers, submit feedback, and collect grades. In this presentation, I will give a demonstration of the peer review functions in ghclass. A set of six functions allows instructors to 1) create a random review roster, 2) set up the review repository infrastructure within a GitHub organization, 3) move assignments from authors to reviewers, 4) collect grades, 5) return the feedback, and 6) obtain a rating of the review from the authors. I reflect on the pedagogy of implementing peer review in introductory data science classes and talk about lessons learned from a real-world test run of the package in the Fall semester 2019 at the University of Edinburgh, conducted by Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel. The presentation highlights ghclass as an R command-line based, open source, low profile, and powerful solution to enable peer review in classes ranging from a size of two to approximately 400 students. A 5 minute presentation in our Lightning Talks series

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Tidyverse Train-the-Trainer Certification Workshop - rstudio::conf(2019L)

What is the 2-day Tidyverse Train-the-Trainer Workshop? That's a great question, I'm glad you asked. Register at https://rstd.io/conf Learn more at https://rstd.io/conf-agenda ------------------------ Tidyverse Train-the-Trainer Certification Workshop - 2 Days - Day 1 of the course will be co-taught by Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel and Garrett Grolemund, RStudio Data Scientists and Professional Educators. - On Day 2, Mine will teach the Shiny track and Garrett will teach the Tidyverse track. This two-day workshop will equip you to teach R effectively. We will draw on RStudio's experience teaching R to recommend tips for designing, teaching, and supporting short R courses. On Day 1 of the course, you will learn practical activities that you can use immediately to improve your presentation style, learning outcomes, and student engagement. You will leave the class with a cognitive model of learning that you can use to develop your own effective workshops or courses within your organization. The course will also cover how to use RStudio Cloud and its curriculum of tutorials to jump-start your own lessons. On Day 2 of the course, participants will have the option to choose one of two tracks: Teaching the Tidyverse or Teaching Shiny. - Teaching the Tidyverse: Classroom examples will focus on how to teach students to do data analysis with the Tidyverse. We will use Master the Tidyverse, which is an award-winning two-day workshop developed by RStudio, as an example. Participants will receive the course materials for teaching Master the Tidyverse. You should take this workshop if you work for a training partner and want to qualify as an RStudio Certified Tidyverse Instructor or if you are an advocate for R in your organization. You should be proficient in the Tidyverse already and be prepared to submit examples of your work. Prior teaching experience is helpful, but not required. Please bring a laptop and a device that has video recording capabilities (such as a laptop or cell phone). Instructors: Garrett Grolemund, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

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Shiny Train-the-Trainer Workshop - rstudio::conf(2019L)

What is the 2-day Shiny Train-the-Trainer Workshop? That's a great question, I'm glad you asked. Register at https://rstd.io/conf Learn more at https://rstd.io/conf-agenda -------------------- Shiny Train-the-Trainer Certification Workshop - 2 Day - Day 1 of the course will be co-taught by Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel and Garrett Grolemund, RStudio Data Scientists and Professional Educators. - On Day 2, Mine will teach the Shiny track and Garrett will teach the Tidyverse track. This two-day workshop will equip you to teach R effectively. We will draw on RStudio's experience teaching R to recommend tips for designing, teaching, and supporting short R courses. On Day 1 of the course, you will learn practical activities that you can use immediately to improve your presentation style, learning outcomes, and student engagement. You will leave the class with a cognitive model of learning that you can use to develop your own effective workshops or courses within your organization. The course will also cover how to use RStudio Cloud and its curriculum of tutorials to jump-start your own lessons. On Day 2 of the course, participants will have the option to choose one of two tracks: Teaching the Tidyverse or Teaching Shiny. - Teaching Shiny: Classroom examples will focus on teaching Shiny at the beginner and intermediate levels. The course materials will build on RStudio's Mastering Shiny workshop as well as the upcoming book from the author of the Shiny package, Joe Cheng, and they will cover the entire lifecycle of a Shiny app: build ️ improving ️ share. Participants will receive the course materials for teaching Mastering Shiny. You should take this workshop if you work as a training partner and want to qualify as an RStudio Certified Shiny Instructor or if you are an advocate for R in your organization. You should be proficient in Shiny already and be prepared to submit examples of your work. Prior teaching experience is helpful, but not required. Please bring a laptop and a device that has video recording capabilities (such as a laptop or cell phone). Instructors: Garrett Grolemund, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Joe Cheng, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

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Software by Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel#

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Events attended by Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel#

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Posts and resources by Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel#

Importing data with the tidyverse

Data transformation with dplyr

The dessert-first approach to teaching data science | Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel | Data Science Hangout

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel: Teaching in the AI era — and keeping students engaged

Translating R for Data Science into Portuguese: A Community-Led Initiative (Beatriz Milz, UFABC)

Leveraging LLMs for student feedback in introductory data science courses (Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel)

Exploratory Data Analysis with R in Positron

Quarto Dashboards: from zero to publish in one hour

Quarto Dashboards 3: Theming and Styling | Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel | Posit

Quarto Dashboards 2: Components | Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel | Posit

Quarto Dashboards 1: Hello, Dashboards! | Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel | Posit

Reproducible Manuscripts with Quarto - posit::conf(2023)

What's new in the tidyverse? by Professor Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Teaching the tidyverse in 2023 | Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Quarto for Academics | Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Get started with Quarto | Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

posit::conf(2023) Workshop: Teaching Data Science Masterclass

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel & Julia Stewart Lowndes | Hello Quarto: Share, Collaborate, Teach, Reimagine

BioC 2022 - Hello, Quarto!

RStudio Cloud Demo with Dr. Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel | Teaching R online with RStudio Cloud | RStudio (2020)

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel | Feedback at scale | RStudio

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel | Making the Shiny Contest | RStudio (2020)

Therese Anders | Peer review in data science courses | RStudio (2020)

Tidyverse Train-the-Trainer Certification Workshop - rstudio::conf(2019L)

Shiny Train-the-Trainer Workshop - rstudio::conf(2019L)