[Courses] [Techtalk] Any interest in a Statistics/R course/study group?

[Alex McFerron]

i am interested

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Finne Boonen <hennar at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am, altho might be a few weeks before I have the time to tackle it.
>
> Finne
>
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 21:03, Akkana Peck<akkana at shallowsky.com> wrote:
> > Several of us on IRC were just talking about statistics
> > and the R project for statistics and data visualization:
> >  http://www.r-project.org/
> > and how we'd like to learn more about this topic, but it's
> > tough to get started and to figure out what you need to learn.
> >
> > And meanwhile, some of you may already know that we have this
> > wonderful newly fixed Moodle install on courses.linuxchix.org.
> > Julie Pichon. Penny Leach, Terri Oda and Brenda Wallace all
> > coordinated to upgrade our postgres and Moodle, fix the old
> > single-signon problem with Moodle AND get all the old archived
> > courses migrated into Moodle.  The only thing that's missing to
> > test out this fancy-schmancy Moodle is ... new courses!
> >
> > Okay, so we don't actually have an instructor who knows R
> > and statistics well enough to teach it. (Any volunteers?)
> > But why should we let a little thing like that stop us?
> >
> > If there are enough of us interested, I'm thinking we could
> > form a study group and use Moodle to coordinate our studies.
> > Decide how much we want to do each week, come up with homework
> > that we can work on and discuss.
> >
> > Anyone interested?
> >
> >        ...Akkana
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