R for Social Sciences

Guide for Videos - CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Schools - Pretoria 2023

This is a guide to navigate the mini-lectures for the class R for Social Sciences. We will follow the material from Data Carpentry: https://datacarpentry.org/r-socialsci/.

Please watch the videos in order, and solve the exercises that are described at the end of each mini-lecture.

Section	Video File Names	Time (minutes)
Summary and Setup	00.Welcome	6:46
Before we Start	01.R_SocialScientists, 02.R_SocialScientists, 03.R_SocialScientists	31:08
Introduction to R	04.R_SocialScientists, 05.R_SocialScientists, 06.R_SocialScientists, 07.R_SocialScientists, 08.R_SocialScientists, 09.R_SocialScientists	74:23
Starting with Data	10.R_SocialScientists, 11.R_SocialScientists, 12.R_SocialScientists	70:22
Data Wrangling with dplyr and tidyr	13.R_SocialScientists, 14.R_SocialScientists, 15.R_SocialScientists, 16.R_SocialScientists	77:33
Data Visualisation with ggplot2	17.R_SocialScientists, 18.R_SocialScientists, 19.R_SocialScientists, 20.R_SocialScientists	75:11
Processing JSON data	21.R_SocialScientists	14:41
Closing	22.Closing	1:00

Code Handouts:

Introduction to R: https://datacarpentry.org/r-socialsci/intro-R-handout.html
Starting with Data: https://datacarpentry.org/r-socialsci/starting-with-data-handout.html
Data Wrangling with dplyr and tidyr: https://datacarpentry.org/r-socialsci/data-wrangling-handout.html
Data visualization with ggplot2: https://datacarpentry.org/r-socialsci/data-visualisation-handout.html

Download scripts and data for Pretoria 2023 here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1P4IFG_78gcvY02BqHY8QZd34GbNXsCRr?usp=sharing