Data Science for WASH - An opportunity for the sector

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👋 Welcome

These materials were prepared for a workshop hosted at the Colorado WASH Symposium 2021. The symposium is finished, but I will continue to host the workshop on Zoom.

🎥 Recording

This video is a recording of the workshop hosted on 28th April 2021. You can use it to:

1. learn about the motivation for this initiative,
2. follow the instructions and complete the exercises,
3. get inspired and click here to sign up for another round on 4th November 2021 to ask some questions

📆 Details

Have you missed it? Zoom Meeting Link to sign up for another round on 4th November 2021.

• Date: Thursday, 4th November 2021
• Time:
  • 7 AM (MST - Boulder, USA) 🇺🇸
  • 3 PM (CET - Zurich, Switzerland) 🇨🇭
  • 5 PM (EAT - Nairobi, Kenya) 🇰🇪
  • 9 PM (ICT - Hanoi, Vietnam) 🇻🇳
  • 1 AM (NSW - Sydney, Australia) 🇦🇺 “Sorry!”

✏️ Prework

We assume that you have:

1. Created a free account on RStudio Cloud (create one here)
2. One of Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge (just not the Internet Explorer)
3. Read the Code of Conduct for this workshop

We do not expect any prior knowledge of using R or RStudio.

🏁 Objectives

As part of the workshop you will:

• follow along an example to produce a data analysis report using data of the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation
• learn how to use the R Markdown document format to produce an HTML document, and how to publish it as a website
• get a taste of the benefits of using R as a modern data science tool for reproducible data analyses and reporting

Acknowledgments

This is website made with the distill package and is inspired by the layout of Teaching in Production by Alison Hill.