So far I feel like I have learned a lot throughout this course in different areas. The main one would be coding and I feel like the weekly labs, collaboration with peers, and videos have helped jumpstart my understanding of programming R. At times the influx of information has been overwhelming but having more experienced peers along with the videos and my notes to refer to has been a huge help in my learning process. I have felt most successful when I ask lots of questions and refer to my notes and the videos to help answer my questions. I have also felt successful when reviewing completed labs with my partners and seeing the work we put in. Reading different lines of code and seeing the results is also quite satisfying.
Some skills and concepts I would like to explore more would be just practicing my coding skills in general and working on my memory of the syntax of the lines of code. I often refer to my notes to make sure I am getting the code properly after getting errors. I think this is fine and good practice but I definitely could work on knowing the functions better. Specifically, I would like to continue to work on creating/editing histograms. As someone who enjoys visuals and reading histograms, I think it is a very useful skill and one that I would like to continue to develop to best understand the data we are analyzing.
My hopes for the second semester are to continue to develop my skills in R and also gain a better understanding of the history associated with the data. Through this course, I have learned a lot more about Bates’ history and also about the surrounding areas. I hope to learn more about these topics and explore other historical data.
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