Feb 28 For this week, the topic we discussed is character strings in R. This lab’s content is a steppingstone for text analysis. We started with introducing the concept of characters, character strings, and character string vectors in R. Then, we talked about operations on strings such as getting substring and combining different character strings. […]
Month: February 2018
Python Open Lab Week 3: Feb 26
For week three we decided to tackle strings, string methods, and functions: String Methods Strings are amongst the most popular types in Python. We can create them simply by enclosing characters in quotes. Python treats single quotes the same as double quotes. Creating strings is as simple as assigning a value to a variable. The […]
Spring 2018 R Open Lab: More Fundamentals
Last week, we walked through the R starter kit which introduced most of the useful basic concepts in R such as vectors, matrices, and loops. This week, we continued to talk about more basics in R and demonstrated examples. The goal of this lab is to get attendants a better understanding of how R language […]
Python Open Lab Feb 19
On week two of the open labs, we continued building on the starter kit and worked on python data structures. We discussed loops (both for and while), dictionaries and dictionary methods. A while loop is a concept that, when implemented, executes a piece of code over and over again, while a given condition remains true: […]