[R] introducing R to high school students

[Hadley Wickham]

> If the students are in a "science research" class, does that mean they
> have data from their own research that they would want to understand
> better?  I think that would be much more motivating than anything else.

It might depends on the class - most high school science experiments
aren't that compelling.  Depending on the audience you might find
publicly available datasets to be more interesting - there's plenty of
stuff on sports, console games, ... that they might find more
interesting.

>  "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood,
>   divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the
>   vast and endless sea."  [Antoine de St. Exupery]

Exactly - I love that quote.

Hadley

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Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair
Department of Statistics / Rice University
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