0. Intro to Data Science Tooling (Building Packages)

J. Hathaway

Introduction to J. Hathaway

• History before BYU-I (My work at PNNL)
• History at BYU-I (Data Science!)
• Family introduction
• Hobbies (Board Games and Theology)

Introduction to the Course

Let’s make this what we want!

• Proposed projects
• Proposed grading
• Discussion about special topics classes

Activity 1

Get into teams of 3 and work on the following definitions

• What is data analytics?
• What is data science?
• What is data science tooling?

Activity 2

What are Python and R packages?

• Explore Plotnine and their Github Repository to see how Python packages are structured
• Explore ggplot2 and their Github Repository to see how R packages are structured

Questions

1. Where are the functions located in the package?
2. Where is the documentation?
3. How are their websites built?

Discussion 1

What packages dow we think will be fun to build?