R with David Keyes

This week I am joined by David Keyes. We talked about R, why evaluators should learn R, tips for teaching courses, and more!

Interested in getting started with R? Check out David's free course!

Interested in learning how to do inferential statistics in R? Check our our new course!

Resources:

Blog posts

• Dana's R journey
• What is a tidyverse-centric approach?
• How to make beautiful tables in R
• How to make functions in R
• How to evaluate R packages
• Using Word reference documents with R Markdown to create custom reports
• If you care about equity, use R

Other resources

• Daniel Lakens' course Improving your statistical inference
• My manuscript written entirely in R
• Todoist
• Savical and Calendly
• Figma
• QuickBooks
• WordPress and SquareSpace
• Evaluation Jobs
• Teachable
• Streamlabs

Some packages: tidyverse, beepr, praise, janitor, gt, gtsummary, lavaan, ggplot, rstatix, papaja

Contact:

• David Keyes: Twitter @dgkeyes and @RfortheRest and email [email protected]
• EvaluLand: Website & Twitter (@EvaluLand)

About David:

David Keyes is the founder of R for the Rest of Us. Through online courses and custom trainings, he helps people and organizations learn R, the most powerful tool for data analysis and visualization (which also happens to be free).

In addition to training folks to use R, David does consulting work with research and evaluation organizations, foundations, and others. David's creates high-quality data visualization, helps organizations to use R to improve their workflow, and much more.

Music by Matt Ingelson, http://www.mattingelsonmusic.com/