Well, what a great 3 days this has been! Again today, we gained extra people to join in HealthyR Notebooks – A formidable achievement for a statistics course!
We kicked off with a brilliant session by Ewen Harrison about survival analysis and time to event data, introducing new concepts and the R survival package. Then went into an amazing session by Riinu Ots, who showcased how to plot your data with real world, practical examples. This session really was brilliant, living up to Riinus catch-phrase ‘always plot your data’. This was followed by a short pop quiz, which all participants did brilliantly!
After a tasty lunch, we then continued into a new session, how to work with your data. This session is aimed at translating the learning of HealthyR, straight to a reallife dataset of the participants choosing. Participants were guided through the practical application of R to their own data, giving them a springboard to produce some cool analyses after the course.
Following the final session we departed to Tallinn for flights back home tomorrow.
All in all, HealthyR notebooks were a success and very fun to teach. Estonia was well worth the trip and showed we could teach R to an international audience (even having fun at the same time!). Looking forward to developing the course further when the team go to Ghana later this year. Big thanks to Julius for organising the course and to the Welcome Trust!