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Subject: Re: Summer school on R (Bucharest, September 2010) From: "Adrian Dusa" <dusa.adrian@unibuc.ro> Date: Wed, August 11, 2010 11:49 To: vladimir.batagelj@fmf.uni-lj.si Cc: m.c.mills@rug.nl
Dear Vlado,
I was just about to start writing you, when I saw your email (perfect timing). Melinda is avaliable for only one day out of the total six, therefore two additional topics need to be covered (factor analysis and cluster analysis). In the last email we have exchanged, you cover Day 3 and Day 4. Given that Day 5 is Sunday (day off, social event), I wonder if you could stay for two more days (Monday included) in order to split the workload on Day 6 (with factor analysis and cluster analysis). I am comfortable with factor analysis, and I remember you are quite fond of cluster analysis (you were talking about some custom functions to implement clustering techniques). Should you agree, we can divide Day 6, and function of your flight details we might teach cluster analysis in the morning session and factor analysis later). Below is the (I believe final) program, please tell me how it looks like.
Thanks again for this email, Adrian
On Wednesday 11 August 2010, Vladimir Batagelj wrote:
Dear Adrian,
how the things about the Summer school on R are going on?
How many candidates are there?
We also have to decide who will present what, so that we
can prepare the slides and other materials. Any suggustions?
Other issues?
best regards, Vlado
–
Adrian Dusa
University of Bucharest
Faculty of Sociology and Social Work
9, Schitu Magureanu Bd.
Bucharest sector 5
Romania
Tel.:+40 21 3126618
+40 21 3120210 / int.101
Fax: +40 21 3158391
Subject: Re: summer school topics From: "Adrian Dusa" <dusa.adrian@gmail.com> Date: Wed, November 11, 2009 17:10 To: vladimir.batagelj@fmf.uni-lj.si
Perfect then, I am going to send the final version of the program at the beginning of the next week, and afterwards to Angela Dale for publishing it to the ESF website.
Best wishes, Adrian
On Wednesday 11 November 2009, Vladimir Batagelj wrote:
«←——- Adrian Dusa——–»>
> Dear Vlado,
…
> After talking with Melinda, the short list of demonstrations looks like
> this
> (random order):
> 1. Survival analysis
> 2. Regression (multiple linear, also logistic)
> 3. Factor analysis
> 4. Cluster analysis
> 5. Advanced graphics (here I would include maps and geodata)
> 6. Modelling/fitting particular curves, smoothing
>
> I wonder if you could cover the last two topics (they could be
> allocated in Day 4, the first day of the demonstration). If you
> agree, this would be the equivalent of one day from the six,
> leaving another day for you in the introductory first half of
> the week to arrive at the 2 days per tutor.
The last two topics are OK for me. I would prefer to realize
them in two different days (one day in the morning, the other
in the afternoon session).
> Should you agree, I would suggest either Day 1 or Day 3 (personally I
> would prefer Day 2 and Day 3).
I prefer Day 3.
Control structures (branching, loops), creating and using functions,
basic graphics
> Following your response, I believe we are now ready to publish the
> information about this summer school on the ESF website.
best regards, Vlado
–
Adrian Dusa
Romanian Social Data Archive
1, Schitu Magureanu Bd.
050025 Bucharest sector 5
Romania
Tel.:+40 21 3126618
+40 21 3120210 / int.101
Fax: +40 21 3158391
Subject: points from the preliminary meeting on R summer school From: "Adrian Dusa" <dusa.adrian@gmail.com> Date: Mon, November 2, 2009 21:39 To: "Angela Dale" <angela.dale@manchester.ac.uk> (more) Cc: "Vladimir Batagelj" <vladimir.batagelj@fmf.uni-lj.si> (more)
Dear All,
We had a productive meeting last week in Brussels, and moved a step forward to designing the summer school on R.
The basic question is:
or
We believe both are important, but this summer school it is intended not as a replacement of the others (subsequent summer schools), but as a preparatory training. For this reason, half of the week will be dedicated to introducing students to the R (programming) language, and the other half to specific “demonstrations” on how to use R for various statistical analyses.
For the first introductory half of the week, there will be a morning 3 hours lecture, followed after the lunch with an afternoon 3 hours computer pool, supervised either by the lecturer or the assistant, or even both if they agree.
The second half of the week will also be divided in morning and afternoon sessions, but each will be comprised by both lecture and hands-on computers, therefore a total number of 6 demonstrations.
A first draft of the programme looks like this:
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First half, introductory:
Day 1. Interactive use of the R environment, basic types, objects, assignment, various operators, built-in functions, reserved names, vectors and recycling
Day 2. Indexing vectors, other structures (matrices, lists, arrays), reading/writing, saving, importing/exporting data to/from external files
Day 3. Control structures (branching, loops), creating and using functions, basic graphics
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Second half, 6 applications (2 per day):
Here we have a first range of proposals, for which we'd be grateful of you could make suggestions. Given that it's an introductory school, we think it is important to focus the demonstrations on two directions:
Topic proposals:
These are just proposals, but a decision needs to be made fairly soon. For this reason I have CC-ed Vladimir Batagelj and David Firth, two of the prospective tutors along with myself. Your comments and suggestions are most welcome.
Proposed date is late August or early September, when the building is free and quiet.
Best wishes and thanks in advance, Adrian
Adrian Dusa
Romanian Social Data Archive
1, Schitu Magureanu Bd.
050025 Bucharest sector 5
Romania
Tel.:+40 21 3126618
+40 21 3120210 / int.101
Fax: +40 21 3158391