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

[Alex McFerron]

I am in

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Alex McFerron <alexmcferron at gmail.com>wrote:

> I am in...
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> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Anne Sorsa <amk.sorsa at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hello,
>>
>> This sound interesting, count me in.
>>
>> 2009/8/31 Akkana Peck <akkana at shallowsky.com>
>>
>> > 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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>> Anne
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