- Course materials for Fall 2021 can be found here.
- Official course webpage here: http://datasciencelabs.github.io
- Dr. Heather Mattie
- Lecturer on Biostatistics
- Co-Director, Health Data Science Master's Program
- hemattie@hsph.harvard.edu
- Rolando Acosta racosta@fas.harvard.edu
- Jonathan Luu jluu@g.harvard.edu
- Octavious Talbot octavioustalbot@g.harvard.edu
- Stephanie Wu stephaniewu@fas.harvard.edu
- Luli Zou zou@g.harvard.edu
Note: all office hours will be held in-person AND online via Zoom links in Canvas.
| Day | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | 1-2pm | FXB G03 |
| Monday | 2-3pm | FXB G03 |
| Tuesday | 11am-12pm | Kresge 205 |
| Wednesday | 8:30-9:30am | Building 1, 4th Floor, Room 421A |
| Thursday | 1-2pm | FXB G03 |
| Day | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday | 2-3:30pm | Fall 1: Kresge 200 |
| Fall 2: Kresge 502 | ||
| Thursday | 3:45-5:15pm | Online - Zoom link in Canvas |
You can use Git within RStudio to download the course materials. If you haven't cloned the repository before, follow these instructions:
- Click on the green "Clone or Download" on Github and copy the link.
- Open RStudio, and go to File > New Project > Version Control > Git, and paste in the link you just copied. Under "Create Project as Subdirectory of", browse and select a folder where you want the course materials to go.
- Press "Create Project". This will create a folder called
2021in the folder you selected in step 2. - Now, you can open this project using the projects tab in the upper
right of RStudio, or going to File > Open Project and then navigating
to the 2021 folder and opening the
.Rprojfile.
If you already cloned the repository outside of RStudio (e.g. using Git Bash), you can associate the directory that was created in that step with RStudio. In RStudio, go to File > New Project > Existing Directory, and then navigate / click on the 2021 folder. Then click "Create Project". Then you can follow step 4 above to open the project when you launch RStudio. You can read more about RStudio projects here: https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/200526207-Using-Projects
Once you cloned the course repository and want to get updates, you must
use git pull to get updates.
In RStudio, if you followed the instructions above, simply navigate
to the Git tab and press the Pull button. In terminal / Git bash, use
cd to navigate to the 2021 folder, then run git pull.
If you wish to take notes and write in the course materials, you can
save a copy of the file you want to take notes on with the filename
containing personal. For example, if you want to take notes on the
file 00-motivation.Rmd, save it as 00-motivation_personal.Rmd. Then,
you can edit the 00-motivation_personal.Rmd file. We have configured
Git to ignore any files that contain personal in the filename, so any changes you make won't show up in Git. This will
allow you to update the course repo without any issues.