R4DS online learning community: self-taught data science & DEI

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An online study group uses the free R for Data Science book paired with a public Slack; 600 people join within days, half drop out in two weeks because Slack is overwhelming and many can’t install R/RStudio. No mentor training causes uneven help, so leaders add volunteer office hours, GitHub exercises, YouTube tutorials, a website and Tidy Tuesday. The community scales to ~2,500 members and persists under new volunteer maintainers, but installation friction and onboarding remain the main barriers.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:20R4DS ONLINE LEARNING COMMUNITY Jesse Mostipak
3. 0:54I CAN MAKE YOUR STUDENT LOANS DISAPPEAR
4. 2:37BECOMING A DATA SCIENTIST life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well - Jack London
5. 4:22STARTUPS ARE FUN!
6. 5:14DO GOOD WITH DATA
7. 7:37THE PLAN
8. 9:15EXPECTATIONS VS. REALITY
9. 11:46ROUND 1 RESULTS
10. 12:55ROUND 2
11. 15:03DIVERSITY, EQUITY, & INCLUSION
12. 16:24DEMYSTIFY DATA SCIENCE
13. 18:03QUESTIONS?

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