This pre-registered class will introduce you to R, a free, powerful open-source programming language, that will add statistical heft to your reporting. By the end of this three-hour session, you will be able to take raw data, import it into R, and start your analysis. Topics will include basic data importing, working with directories, reading in data, installing packages, creating simple visualizations, and how to clean, explore and sort your data. We'll also talk about how to find help when you're stuck.

Charles Minshew, IRE-NICAR ([email protected])

Olga Pierce, ProPublica ([email protected])

Hannah Fresques, ProPublica ([email protected])

Theme park incidents, cleaned from this PDF (Theme_park_incidents.csv)

Aligator bites in Florida, requested from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (Alligator_Bites.csv)

Black bear related calls in Florida (Florida_bear_reports.csv)

Florida voter registration data, created from a monthly extract of the Florida Voter Registration system. (Orange_history.csv and Orange_voters.csv)

American Community Survey census tract-level household income data for Orange, Florida. (acs2016_5yr_median_hhi.csv)