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ModernDive 0.2.0.9000

  • Added wide-logo to top of each chapter and logos folder
  • Added favicon (icon in browser tab)

Development version; a work in progress. Some planned updates:

  • Chapter 6: Data Modeling using Regression via broom
    • Better treatment of experimental design and its effect on bias/causation than currently exists in chapter.
    • Examples of regression with categorical predictors with 3 or more levels.
    • Multivariate regression, in particular the following predictor scenarios: 2 numerical, 2 categorical, and 1 numerical + 1 categorical
    • Interaction effects
  • Chapter 7-9: Sampling, Hypothesis Testing, Confidence Intervals have largely not been updated, pending developments of infer: A tidyverse-friendly R package fo statistical inference

ModernDive 0.2.0

Content changes

  • Incorporated feedback from consultations with Prof. Yana Weinstein, cognitive psychological scientist and co-founder of The Learning Scientists.
  • Restructured/revamped chapters
    • Chapter 1: Introduction
    • Chapter 2: Getting Started New chapter added meant for new R users/coders, including
      • Discusions on R vs RStudio and how to install both (with support videos)
      • A "How do I code in R?" section with links to DataCamp.com courses that covers the console, data types, vectors, factors, data frames, boolean operators, functions etc
      • Thorough discussion on R packages
      • An end-to-end starter example analysis of the data frames in the nycflights13 package using the console, View(), glimpse() etc.
    • Chapter 3: Data Visualization via ggplot2 now first non-intro chapter.
      • Replaced Menard's "Napolean's March on Moscow" with Hans Rosling's (RIP) "Gapminder" plots as introductory example to Grammar of Graphics.
      • Added geom_col() for making barcharts when data is pre-tabulated, instead of using geom_bar(stat="identity")
    • Chapter 4: Tidy Data via tidyr bumped back. Added sections on converting from wide to long/tidy format and importing CSV's
    • Chapter 5: Data Manipulation Wrangling via dplyr
    • Chapter 6: Data Modeling using Regression via broom bumped up from end of book to here given its pedagogical importance, added notes on viewing regression in a prediction framework.
    • Chapter 7-9: Sampling, Hypothesis Testing, Confidence Intervals Mostly unchanged for now; see pending changes section below.

Technical changes

  • Book is now hosted on ModernDive.com
  • Development version now on original ModernDive site https://ismayc.github.io/moderndiver-book/
  • Added links to digital copies and source code of all past versions of ModernDive in Chapter 1.
  • Cut build/compilation time of book from ~20 minutes to ~1 minute
  • Disabled gitbook PDF output

Pending changes for next version

  • Chapter 6: Data Modeling using Regression via broom
    • Better treatment of experimental design and its effect on bias/causation than currently exists in chapter.
    • Examples of regression with categorical predictors with 3 or more levels.
    • Multivariate regression, in particular the following predictor scenarios: 2 numerical, 2 categorical, and 1 numerical + 1 categorical
    • Interaction effects
  • Chapter 7-9: Sampling, Hypothesis Testing, Confidence Intervals have largely not been updated, pending developments of infer: A tidyverse-friendly R package fo statistical inference

ModernDive 0.1.3

  • Attempting to fix Shiny app in Figure 6.2 appearing as white box in published site noted here
    • Reverted to using screenshot with link instead
  • Updated link to dplyr cheatsheet and ggplot2 cheatsheet
  • Began adding DataCamp chapters as Review Questions to the end of Chapters 3 and 4 (More to come)
  • Updated link to MailChimp
  • Fixed wording in a few Ch 3 Learning Checks

ModernDive 0.1.2

  • Converted last updated in index.Rmd to inline instead of R chunk
  • Fixed edit link to point to moderndive-book GitHub repo instead of moderndive-source repo
  • Fixed broken links to script files at the end of Chapters 4-9
  • Added purl=FALSE to chunks that do not contain useful code to the reader
  • Attempting to fix Shiny app in Figure 6.2 appearing as white box in published site noted here

ModernDive 0.1.1

  • Fixed the problems of chapter cross-references not working by removing the backticks in chapter names
    • Issue created on bookdown here
  • Looked for typos throughout all chapters
  • Added coggle diagrams to Chapter 4 and Appendix B
  • Followed the same format of having a Conclusion section at the end of each chapter
  • Fixed $T$ distribution plot with histogram in Chapter 7
    • May be weird issue with cache = TRUE that incorrectly plotted values on 1/10^th^ the correct scale
    • Will need to keep an eye on it going forward
  • Fixed typo on Reach for the Stars chapter name

ModernDive 0.1.0

  • Fiat Lux!
  • Basic chapter structure in place
  • First pass at II Inference section (Chapters 6-9) complete
  • First revisions of I Data Exploration (Chapters 3-5) nearly complete