The R-podcast

About this Episode In this episode, Eric shares insights gained from the JSM 2019 conference, including an excellent panel discussion on the use of javascript in statistics. In addition, Eric is joined by RStudio's education team members Alison Hill & Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel to discuss new ideas for teaching data science effectively, as well as how tools like R-Markdown are opening many new possibilities for both students and teachers. Episode Shownotes Why Javascript? JSM panel discussion: Karl Broman's slides Carson Sievert's slides Data Science in a Box: datasciencebox.org RStudio Learner Personas: rstudio-education.github.io/learner-personas Advanced R-Markdown workshop from rstudio::conf 2019: arm.rbind.io/ learnr - Interactive tutorials in R: rstudio.github.io/learnr Project Kickstart-R - Create a project/team website and knowledge sharing platform with R-Markdown: github.com/sourcethemes/project-kickstart-r lullabyr - Generate children's songs with random words: github.com/