Working with SNiGB

2 March 2026

This week is a time to reflect on what we have learned in the first half of the semester before Spring Break. We will explore a new dataset as a way to see how everyone is feeling about organization, Markdown, R, data wrangling, and visualization, while introducing Quarto documents.

Reading

Assignment

  • First self reflection due. 2–3 paragraph self reflection on how things are going, what questions you have, and what you are excited about learning. See the assignments page for details. You can turn in self reflections through email.
  • Download the SNiGB data into the data-raw/ folder in your r-notes project, reate a snigb.R file in your scripts folder, and explore the data.
    • Download the SNiGB data from this GoogleDrive.
    • What interests you in the data? What questions do you think you might be able to answer given the nature of the data? See if you can make some exploratory data visualizations. Record your thoughts in code comments and in your commonplace book.

Activities

  • Continue Wrangling data with dplyr
  • Pair and share: What were you able to explore in your script? What are you interested to explore in greater depth?
  • Introduction to Quarto documents
  • Discussion: Current thoughts and next steps

Resources

Quarto