1  Syllabus

Reggee and Aaron R. Williams

1.1 Background

• Lead Data Scientist for Statistical Computing at the Urban Institute
• Adjunct Professor in the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University
• American Statistical Association Traveling Course Instructor

1.2 R Projects

• Synthetic data generation (rstudio::conf(2022) talk about library(tidysynthesis))
• Formal privacy/differential privacy evaluation (code) (arXiv)
• Projects that iterate with R Markdown
• Manage the Urban Institute ggplot2 theme (Examples) (Code)
• Urban Institute R Users Group

1.3 Questions for You

• What types of analyses do you develop?
• What is your programming experience?
• What are you most interested to learn?

1.4 Outline

Process

• Please ask questions at any time.
• I need to know how you are doing. Please ask lots of questions and give your reactions.
• I will check in during breaks about pacing and content.

Goals

• Enthusiasm
• Develop a firm foundation with tools for reproducible research
• Leave with enough understanding and resources that you can apply the covered material to your own work
  • You will still need to look stuff up!
  • I will try to give you hints for where to find help