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

[Anne-Laure Buisson]

Hello,
Mani A told me to ask you to allow me to write in  moodle : my ID is :
http://courses.linuxchix.org/user/view.php?id=355&course=24
Thank you in advance,
Anne Laure

ALB


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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