Past Code Club Sessions


Note: We also have an overview of all past sessions in table format with links!



Code Club S02E01: An introduction to R (Part 1)
This first installment of Code Club in the Fall ‘21 semester is the first of two sessions where we will go through the basics of R.
Aug 26, 2021
Session 20: Cleaning up variables names, and other wrangling
During this session of Code Club, we will be learning to clean up variable names, combine and separate columns, and extract data with regular expressions.
Aug 11, 2021
Session 20: Cleaning up variables names, and other wrangling
Session 19: Word Clouds via Tidytext
Visualizing text frequency distributions
Jul 19, 2021
Session 19: Word Clouds via Tidytext
Session 18: Regular Expressions: Part II
Building on last week, we’ll take regular expressions to a second level.
Apr 15, 2021
Session 18: Regular Expressions: Part II
Session 17: Introduction to regular expressions
In the first in a mini-series on working with strings in R, we will learn some basics of regular expressions.
Apr 9, 2021
Session 17: Introduction to regular expressions
Session 16: lubridate
Today, we will learn how to work effectively with dates and times in R using the lubridate package.
Jul 19, 2021
Session 16: lubridate
Session 15: Plotly
During this fifteenth session of Code Club, we will learn to make interactive plots using ggplotly.
Mar 26, 2021
Session 14: Writing your own Functions
In this session of Code Club, we’ll look at how to avoid repetition in another way by writing your own functions.
Mar 18, 2021
Session 14: Writing your own Functions
Session 13: Applying The Apply Functions
In this session of Code Club, we’ll consider the apply() family of functions, which can often be used as efficient alternatives to writing some of the loops we worked with in the previous session.
Mar 11, 2021
Session 12: Vectorization and loops in R
This will be the first of several sessions broadly about iterating in order to avoid copying-and-pasting of code, and today we will talk about vectorization and for loops.
Aug 18, 2021
Session 12: Vectorization and loops in R